The original highend sound system by Emu was the 1820m This consists off three PCI cards plus a large external box with all the audio circuitry inside of this box. Emu has discontinued this although some are available used.
Almost the same quality but half the number of channels is the model 1616m. I have this with a pcmcia card (cardbus) interface and it has a smaller external box for the audio circuitry. It also requires a wallwart power supply of 48vdc which was previously internally generated in the old model 1820m. The 1616m-PCI is the same as the one I have but it uses a PCI card instead of pcmcia. Both version are $500 USD here. The quality is excellent and owing to putting the audio in a separate enclosure, the SNR is 125dB on my screen. The 1212m which Alberto has tried, is simply a pair of PCI cards with all circuitry on those cards. There is no shielding yet they claim 120dB dynamic range. The price is only $150 USD. It will work at 192KHz but Alberto must write an additional part to Winrad in order to allow the selction of non-standard ASIO channels. The other two models use standard channels and work very well with winrad. 73, Jeffrey Pawlan, WA6KBL _______________________________________________ Winrad mailing list [email protected] http://winrad.org/mailman/listinfo/winrad_winrad.org
