Which has the best sound quality Delta 1010LT or the Audiophile 24/96 ?

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Has anyone compared the sound quality of these two cards to one another?
 
MM,

> Has anyone compared the sound quality of these two cards to one another? <

You are asking the wrong question. Either of those cards will give excellent results. The real issues for home recordists are how to select and place microphones, how to get a good room sound, how to use EQ and compression and other effects, and how to create a great mix. Those will have 20 times more impact on the quality of your recordings than the tiny difference between sound cards.

--Ethan
 
I think the Audiophile and the 1010LT use similar (if not the same) DSP Chips... That means the sound quality of what you record will be the same on both cards...

but like Ethan said the real quality would be more prevalent in *how* you record it.
 
the audiophile doesn't have the same converters as the 1010 or 1010lt. . it has the same chps as the delta 44
 
sorry, but the Audiophile has better converters than the Delta 44/66......
 
sorry but no it doesn't. from M-audio

The Audiophile 2496 is an all-in-one high fidelity soundcard solution for a wide variety of applications, ranging from multitrack recording to computer-based home theatre. Analog I/O is available on RCA jacks, utilizing the same professional 24-bit, 96kHz conversion as the Delta 44 and Delta 66 cards . S/PDIF I/O and MIDI I/O provide connectivity to both digital devices, and the world of MIDI
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The Audiophile uses an AKM AK4528, while the 44 and 66 use the AK4524 (as does the cport,as does the DirectPro2496, as does the Echo Cards)....

the 4528 has a 8db improvement in dynamic range.....
 
surrender your title now C9!!! hahaha...man and I don't even like wrestling.
 
Hey,
Ya'll can't be dogging my boy C-9. Tag let me in !!!!!


Thanks for the help Gidge & C-9
 
hey Gidge, you ask m-audio then. i'm just posting what they emailed to me.
 
The PCI card is a compact five inches long and uses AKM's AK4528 converter chip. This looks identical to the popular AK4524 Codec used in many other soundcards, but is a newer model with an 8dB improvement in A-D dynamic range at chip level. All products in the Delta range use the same drivers, which are now available for Mac, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, and unusually, Linux. When I visited the Midiman web site to download the latest Windows 98 drivers for this review, I also noticed that a beta version of the Windows 2000 WDM drivers had just become available.
from this page
http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/apr01/articles/soundcard.asp


The Delta 44 and 66 PCI expansion cards are both just five centimetres long. Their backplates contain a 15-way D-type connector to attach either the Omni I/O or the standard breakout box. The only difference between the two cards is that the 66 carries gold-flashed phono connectors for S/PDIF digital In and Out on the backplate, and additional circuitry for the digital interface on the card itself. The four A-D and D-A converters are provided by two AKM AK4524 codec chips, as also used by the Aardvark Direct Pro 24/96, Terratec EWS88MT, and Creamware Powersampler among others.
from htis site
http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/jan01/articles/maudio.asp
 
i then replied to specify which AKM converters and verify the DMP2 technology:'

Hi Mike,

The 1010LT uses codecs, not the AKM converters. Only our Delta 1010 rack unit uses AKM converters. The LT's mic pres (XLR inputs) will accept either line level or mic level signals, and the distinction is made by setting a jumper on the PCI card. So, it's really just an electronic setting on the card, and does not use the DMP2 technology.

JD Mars
Midiman
 
c9, maybe me and you should get together and open up a can of whoop-ass on thses guys....after all the support ive given them...all i asked for was the truth.....was that so hard?......

anybody that bought the 1010lt based on my posts, i sincerely apologize and hope it lives up the M-Audio's usual fine standards...if not, just remember i was given false info about the parts used on this dude.......
 
Hey Gidge,
Is it a bad thing that the converters are based on DMP2 technology ???
 
DMP2 tecnology is the preamps that the 1010lts are NOT based on........

AKM converters are what most prosumer cards use (delta,aardvark,echo)and the 1010lt doesnt...it uses codecs, basically the same thing your onboard soundcard uses.....

how will all this matter?...i dont know....but i feel raped by Mr. Greg St. Peter's reply and i will invite him to respond here......after all the business ive done with M-Audio, i owe them the benefit of the doubt before i trash them.....
 
damn, codecs... i thought it would have the same chipset as the regular delta 1010, that sucks for people that buy the 1010LT expecting to get the same quality as the Regular delta 1010. i have the regular delta 1010 and it sounds great.

So Gidge do you think the audiophile would have a better sound quality than the delta 1010LT since it only has codecs?

and Mastermindzz i know the stuff your getting, your gonna want more inputs than what the audiophile has. i heard an audiophile the other day, it is a nice sounding card, my dad is about to pick one up for his computer.
 
im not sure what will sound better...im still interested in the 1010lt and how it will stack up against the other Delta cards....hell, these may be some AWESOME codecs......
 
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