On Thu, 27 Jan, 2005 at 04:00PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki spake thus: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:18:02PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi peeps. > > Just looking for some quick advice about a new soundcard. > > I'm looking at getting something like the M-Audio Audiophile 2496. > > This is to replace a SB Live! Value. > > Does this seem like a sensible (though cheap) move? I'm expecting a > > better card. > > Certainly. > > > The reason I'm thinking about changing to something not hugely > > dissimilar is because under ALSA, I'm rally not impressed with my SB. > > The volumes seem wrong - loudest seems to clip before it's off the > > card. I have no use for all those fancy effects that it does, since I > > can't make use of them in my setup anyway. > > There's been a thread going on for the past week or two on > linux-audio-user about an alternative driver for the emu10k1 cards. It > sounds like a lot more of the functionality is useable with this driver. > I didn't pay close attention to the thread, though, since I don't have > one of these cards. Check the archives. > > > Up until now, I've been using headphones mostly, with a couple of sets > > of cheapo speakers as monitors, with a super cheap amp. > > I'm about to splash out on some real nearfield monitors and a real > > monitoring amp, although I'll still be spending less than �350 (That's > > UK pounds, in case the symbol doesn't come out as it should - there's > > a reason I'm not sure it will, but let's not get into that). > > came out fine here. I think it depends on the recipient system's locales > setting or something.
I was more worried about Emacs' refusal to write it without C-q before it. I thought it might decide to do some weird encoding. It has done in the past. > > With a nicer monitoring setup, obviously I want a decent soundcard. > > Does the Audiophile work well with ALSA? Are there any better > > alternatives? Am I being silly, and can just somehow "fix" my > > SBLive/ALSA setup? > > The audiophile, like all ice1712 cards, is very well supported by alsa. > The delta series (44, 66, 1010, 1010lt) all use this same chipset and > driver, as do several good cards by some other manufacturers. > envy24control is a great mixer app included in the alsa-tools > specifically for use with these cards. Many linux users are happy with > their flavor of ice1712, myself included. Hmm. Maybe I'll splash out on the Delta 44. I can get it for around �100 ($200 ish). Thanks for the info. > On the other hand, you may be able to get more out of your sblive using > the newer drivers. For now, I'll certainly take a look at the new drivers, thanks. -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
