High Quality Sound Cards?

High Quality Sound Cards?

[Jeff Dairiki]

Hi!

I'm looking for a good soundcard to use for making high-quality
("CD quality") digital recordings from analog source (under Linux,
of course.)

Any recommendations or pointers to FAQs?

Are there any supported soundcards with >16 bit ADC's?

How about using an external A/D converter connected via S/PDIF?  Are there
any hardware combinations for this which will work under Linux?


Thanks!
 Jeff

Re: High Quality Sound Cards?

[Jeff Noxon]

On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 02:53:56PM -0700, Jeff Dairiki wrote:
> How about using an external A/D converter connected via S/PDIF?  Are there
> any hardware combinations for this which will work under Linux?

I believe you can do this with the Hoontech Soundtrack Digital NX and one
of their more advanced digital I/O brackets.  Check with the ALSA project
to see if digitial input is supported.  The Hoontech card is wonderful.  The
sound quality beats the pants off my SB 64 Gold, for about $45 shipped from
Korea.  I'm not sure what the digital input bracket costs though.  Mine
just came with digital (RCA & Toslink) output.  www.hoontech.com.

Regards,

Jeff

Re: High Quality Sound Cards?

[Dan Hollis]

On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> I believe you can do this with the Hoontech Soundtrack Digital NX and one
> of their more advanced digital I/O brackets.  Check with the ALSA project
> to see if digitial input is supported.  The Hoontech card is wonderful.  The
> sound quality beats the pants off my SB 64 Gold, for about $45 shipped from
> Korea.  I'm not sure what the digital input bracket costs though.  Mine
> just came with digital (RCA & Toslink) output.  www.hoontech.com.

The digital input bracket isnt ready yet.

-Dan