On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:13:27PM +1300, Julian Visch wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good sound card for running under
> linux as I suspect my Sound Blaster has given up the ghost.
> I am especially interested in anyone who has tried using
> it with Sound Studio.
Personally I'm using Winfast 4x, and Winfast 6x sound cards, one on work
computer and one on home computer. They're affordable, they do digital
input/output, and they don't resample digital like SoundBlaster Lives do.
In both situations I'm using an external DAC[1]... So I haven't used the 4
or 6 channel analogue outputs, and have no idea how well they're supported
under Linux.
There's a few annoyances, but nothing too major (like they can't do under
44.1khz when using digital). They use CMI8738 chipset. About $80ish from
memory. Their DAC's suck though. Analogue output is terrible just like any
other consumer card. Another thing is that it wants to occupy two external
slots to make way for all of the inputs/outputs.
Overall, I'd still buy another one ... if I but had another DAC.
Ben.
[1] Digital to Analogue convertor, input S/PDIF output stereo analogue.
Significantly improves sound quality in my experience.
