pfarrell;301934 Wrote: > > > Well, I do, I have a couple of M-Audio Delta 1010, they put all the > sensitive audio out in outboard racks, so only digital stuff is in the > > computer. > > But for converting LPs, one has to think of the budget >
At £350 - £400 in the UK, the 1010 does not look outrageously expensive given the amount of cash some people will part with for some nice cables or a MC cartridge. They look very "pro" too! Shame I only have £50 then ;-) I think there is a market for an "audiophile" ADC/DAC in a break out box like the 1010 but with RCA phono jacks for connection to normal amps / receivers and probably only two stereo pairs in each direction. Looking at some recent reviews it seems that the problems with RFI on sound cards has been adressed pretty well and it is less of a problem than it used to be. Most of the external devices in my budget are USB and tend to have poor reviews relative to the PCI internal cards. An M-audio tech support guy has just given me one more thing to try before I send back the 2496. He said 99% of these problems with the 2496 are IRQ related and if you can sort out the card with an IRQ of its own below 15 then it usually does the job. The trouble is that there is no way to directly control the IRQ of devices in Windows XP so it is all trial and error. I have been shuffling PCI cards about but with no change in the IRQ numbers allocated to each device, which was very frustrating. Apparently I should have been rebooting the PC twice each time I moved a card, once with the card removed and then once again once it was plugged back in. If that doesn't work he says I should send it back. Wish me luck! -- TheLastMan Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47629
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