Mr songwriter
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I can get the 2496 for about £50 and the 192 for about £95. I've been using a 2496 in another PC for about a year now and I'm reasonably happy with it, now I need a soundcard for another PC and I'm wondering whether the 192 is worth the extra £45. As far as I can see, the main advantages of the 192 are:
192 Khz recording, though I'm not sure how well the PC will handle it (it's a 3 Ghz P4 with 768 MB of RAM) as far as I can remember the only time that I tried to record with my 2496 at 96 Khz it was struggling slightly, so I normally just run it at 44 Khz.
Better dynamic range, though again this will obviously be lost when I mixed tracks down to put on a CD, but I suppose it'll be nice to listen to it on the PC.
The 192 has a pair of balanced TRS inputs (the 2496 only has the normal TS ones) and as I'm also buying an M-Audio DMP3 and the manual for the DMP3 says 'when possible, always use the balanced outputs as this will give you a quieter and hotter signal', so they might come in handy.
The 192 is bundled with 'Ableton live lite'
I tried Googling to see if the cards use a different chipsets or converters, but to no avail.
Any opinions, anyone?
192 Khz recording, though I'm not sure how well the PC will handle it (it's a 3 Ghz P4 with 768 MB of RAM) as far as I can remember the only time that I tried to record with my 2496 at 96 Khz it was struggling slightly, so I normally just run it at 44 Khz.
Better dynamic range, though again this will obviously be lost when I mixed tracks down to put on a CD, but I suppose it'll be nice to listen to it on the PC.
The 192 has a pair of balanced TRS inputs (the 2496 only has the normal TS ones) and as I'm also buying an M-Audio DMP3 and the manual for the DMP3 says 'when possible, always use the balanced outputs as this will give you a quieter and hotter signal', so they might come in handy.
The 192 is bundled with 'Ableton live lite'
I tried Googling to see if the cards use a different chipsets or converters, but to no avail.
Any opinions, anyone?