I share Hammit’s thoughts here. About five years ago I bought the Audiophile 24/96 PCI card, which is produced by M-Audio. I herd so many good things on this list about high quality sound cards. I wasn’t disappointed. It was a thousand percent improvement in quality from the built in computer sound card. The stereo soundstage was much wider and there was much greater depth of sound, particularly at the low end. The spoken word recordings I fed into the card from analog sources were of broadcast quality with complements from the production team. The 24-bit depth with the higher sampling rate on the card enables seamless edits without the choppy effect herd with so much audio these days. In my latest recording, I edited a politician in mid-sentence so it sounds like he began his presentation at the beginning of my edit. I edited out the non-newsworthy thanking and acknowledgement of numerous aldermen. People do funny things when they see a high quality broadcast microphone, cables, and headphones monitoring a field recorder.
I don’t regret one minute spending the extra money for this. As a blind person, my world is audio and a much-improved audio experience has greatly improved the quality of my computer life. Kelly On 10/1/11, Hamit Campos <hamitcam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, I guess. I was just putting it out there. There are some things that > may be over kill for me too in the end, but I love sound Devices stuff, and > so I figured, that when I can, I'll get it, and therefore have the coolest > audio ever, and I have these other things handy should I need them since > professional recording is what I'd love to do as a full time job. > > -----Original Message----- > From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] > On Behalf Of Dave Scrimenti > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 6:09 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: two questions about sound cards. > > There's a big difference between consumer and pro cards. It depends on what > you need. The Sound Devices stuff is made for professional recording, and it > > does the job well, but it may be overkill for most people. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Bahr" <dcba...@gmail.com> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 1:44 PM > Subject: Re: two questions about sound cards. > > >> yeah that's the one I have, I did a conversion project of about 200 >> records over the summer for an audio archive and that card, the sb x-fi >> 5.1 pro external usb card, worked fantastically. I'm curious about this >> other 650 dollar card though, really? 650 dollars? That seems rather >> outlandish, unless it comes with its own rack setup or soemthing. >> >> Dave c. bahr >> >> >> On 10/1/2011 9:30 AM, Byron Stephens wrote: >>> The creative x-fi series will be good for ither desk top or laptop. They >>> do have an external card that can be used on ither type of computer >>> system. >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "aadorno1" <angel.ador...@verizon.net> >>> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 7:17 AM >>> Subject: two questions about sound cards. >>> >>> >>>> hi list I have two questions about sound cards. >>>> the first question is what is a good sound card for the PC, I am >>>> thinking about getting studio play list and I am looking for a good >>>> sound card. >>>> my second question is, I mentioned above that I am getting studio play >>>> list and I am wondering if I could use it on my lap top, if so what USB >>>> sound card would be good that's if studio play list can be used with a >>>> lap top. >>>> any way thanks so much, all opinions would be appreciated. >>>> Angel. >>>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
