Turtle Beach

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What's the best Turtle Beach card for a home studio?

Instinct would dictate that the Santa Cruz would be (because that's the latest model out), however it seems that older TB cards and even some ISA cards might be better still.

After researching the Tahiti, Fiji, Pinnicle and Monterey cards online, I am even more confused. It's been suggested that the ISA cards have less latency and demand less resources from the CPU than the later PCI TB cards.

How does the Montego 2 (a PCI card) hold up against the others?

Before someone tells me to just get something from M-Audio, let me point out that I'm on a seriously tight budget here. I intend to go to the secondary market (read that as eBay) for a card under $40.

Thanks,

Carl
 
I can't imagine that the ISA cards (Monterey, Pinnacle) could have inherently less latency than the PCI cards.

Not to mention that there will never be WDM drivers for these cards.
 
I don't understand that either.

I've gotten so many conflicting reports from websites and usenet eavesdrops (via google) that I don't know what to think or believe!

:confused:

That's why I'm turning here, my favorite BBS for the answers. ;)

Carl
 
Oh, and WDM isn't important to me.

My dedicated music DAW is a modest P200 with 128MB Ram running 98.

Carl
 
I had a TB Pinnacle, several years ago... Fantastic card, but once I started using Cubase and VST instruments, the latency was too awful to be useful anymore. Swapped it for an M-Audio Audiophile, and couldn't be happier.

Again, GREAT sounding card - no issues with the audio quality of the TB, whatsoever. But, impossible to update, finicky to installl... in the long run you'll probably be just as happy to get the santa cruz, or, whatever the modern pci version is. Or, like I did, the M-Audio - REALLY happy with the m-audio card...
 
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