What sound card do you own?

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To find a way to use all at the same time would be great.
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To find a use for all at the same time would be great.
:D

Only joking. I use several PC's myself...
 
Delta TDIF - currently in use

M-Audio DiO 24/48 - in a PC that is not on duty yet. Will be a giga machine someday

Steinberg Project card 20bit - about to give to my girlfriend so she can hear "You've got mail!" the way it was intended to be heard!
 
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Steinberg Project card 20bit - about to give to my girlfriend so she can hear "You've got mail!" the way it was intended to be heard!
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The Steiney Project Card was my first "real" audio card. Well, as it turned out, "real" may be too strong a word ;) I think I still have it laying around in a drawer somewhere. It came in a cool box though.
 
I seem to be the only one that has (or dares to come out with it) a guillemot Isis ... not to be recommended for any serious work though.
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I've got one to. I know of a few cd's in Australia that have been recorded with ISIS' and distributed nationally through MGM (metropolitian groove music).

Willy.
 
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I've got one to. I know of a few cd's in Australia that have been recorded with ISIS' and distributed nationally through MGM (metropolitian groove music).
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A 16bit/48kHz card with 20b A/D converters of questionable quality.. I did like them having optical AND coax S/PDIF in/out though. Those cards were from before anyone needed low latency (around 40ms), no support for W2k nor XP...
Still, it was my first real soundcard and I learned a great deal on it, but now it's time to move forward (and with the C-port I hope it will be so)

Herwig
 
The converters were actually fairly good when it came out - burr brown I beleive they are. Someone pulled the breakout box apart once and found that the D/As were 24bit..

I know what you mean about moving forward though. I'm at the same stage.

Willy.
 
Still, it was my first real soundcard and I learned a great deal on it, but now it's time to move forward (and with the C-port I hope it will be so)
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...you will :D It's like night & day.
 
ordered by mail yesterday, hoping to get it tomorrow. My small studio expands : getting rid of the ISIS, having already a behringer 24ch, getting the C-port with 2 Behr. ECM8000 mics, 8x8 snake and two boomstands.

Next up will be some monitors (mackie?genelec?), a large diaphragm mic (rode ntk sumthing) and some basic room treatment.

Herwig
 
Cool. That's about where I'm at. Finding time for it is my big challenge :)

When you go to install the C-Port, make sure you disable ACPI if you're using XP or Win2k. That's the most common installation problem, though it's necessary for a lot of higher-end cards (I had to learn the hard way and it took me forever).
 
Thx for the info.
I was kinda up to reinstalling XP anyway (and keep a W98 on a small partition handy, in case things get ugly ;) )
I found a few nice sites on optimizing XP for audio, will check them out the coming days.

Herwig
 
I have the under-advertised "Terratec EWX24/96"
Sold my Audiophile 24/96, and LOVE the terratec,..
 
PowerMac 8500: Stereo RCA/S-video in/out on the motherboard.

No mid-fi soundcard required.;)
 
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Like guitar-MJ, I too have a Terratec EWX 24/96.

I had an AWE64 Gold that has now gone to the land of Ebay. In its time, the AWE was the dog's danglies of audio cards. :) The biggest drawback though was that the AWE was 'half-duplex' in that it could only playback at 8-bits while recording at 16, the playback sound was atrocius to put it mildly. :(

There is no comparison for quality between the 16-bit AWE and the 24-bit Terratec. Though by no means the perfect audio card, the Terratec holds its head as high as any of the current wave of 24/96 cards.

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BluesMeister
 
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