As a broadcast engineer who has dealt with computerized automation systems providing professional audio for FM radio stations, pretty much all I have used over the years for on-air play have been Audioscience cards. Not cheap, but they do the job. Linux friendly. Available with various combinations of input and output channels and analog and AES digital. Just be careful with the used market, as there are many out there that may not fit current motherboards. Another caveat, you will need to get breakout cables/boxes to interface your audio. The cards have various connectors depending on model, usually some type of SCSI connector that the breakout cables end in XLRs.
Michael On Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 14:20 King Beowulf <kingbeow...@linuxgalaxy.org> wrote: > On 4/16/23 06:42, Rich Shepard wrote: > > The audio voice output quality from my Asus Prime X470-Pro is distorted > and > > unacceptable. I finally figured out that this is the issue with online > > meetings and news/youtube videos, not the speakers (although I just > replaced > > the Creative Pebbles with ProSonus studio monitors). > ... > > > > Please provide recommendations for an add-in PCIe audio card that outputs > > clear voice as well as music to speakers and headphones/headsets. > > > > Rich, > > Most of the Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy series are well supported > with high quality. You go have to check and pick the card by chipset > and not by price as there are various gaps in some functionality in the > myriad of available models. > > https://alsa-project.org/wiki/Matrix:Vendor-Creative_Labs > > (Alas, this list is not up to date.) > > Slackware-15.0 uses ALSA 1.25 and allows for replacing pulseausio with > pipewire. Highly recommended. PA literally sucks donkey balls. In > Slackware-15.0 use: > /usr/sbin/pipewire-enable.sh > /usr/sbin/pipewire-disable.sh > > 2 years back I upgraded my motherboard sound (AMD Starship/Matisse HD > Audio Controller) and switched to the Core3D chipset on the CL > Soundblaster Z ($99.99 in 2021). The new motherboard did have only old > timey PCI slots so I was not able to recycle the nice SB Audigy 2 card I > was using. > > > https://www.newegg.com/creative-sound-blaster-z/p/N82E16829102048?Item=N82E16829102048 > > The newer version is > https://www.newegg.com/creative-sound-blaster-z-se/p/N82E16829102110 > > audio quality is excellent. The catch with Core3D is that you need a > newer kernel that the one Slackware-14.2 ships with 4.4.x). IIRC, > Core3D support hit around kernel-4.18+ > > I paired this with a Beyerdynamic headset (gaming version, there are > others) - cat ate through the cord of a middling Turtle Beach headset. > https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16826380033?Item=N82E16826380033 > > I usually skip trying to set stuff in the PA mixer GUI, other than to > disable the webcam audio and GPU's HDMI audio. Alsamixer suffices, and > Slackbuilds.org has a equalizer plugin. > > -Ed > > >
