From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Petr Votruba" Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:41:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [newbie] choosing a sound-card for GOOD output-only purposes Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Hi! Creative Ensoniq ES1371 is the one I use and I can strongly recommend.. it has very good sound, unhearable noise, really nice basses and linux kernel supports it well. (but there are some problems with multiprocessor kernels, this is not my case). Is relatively cheap. Regards, Petr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joane Lispton" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 1:37 AM Subject: [newbie] choosing a sound-card for GOOD output-only purposes > Hi everyone! > > I am trying to setup my new linux system in a way that I will be happy with > it when it comes to (de)encoding and playing .ogg files. > > I wish to buy a sound-card to which I can attach good-quality speakers, like > the ones I have my hi-fi connected to. I do not intend to use it for sound > input at all or any other function besides this one; but I need it to allow > the speakers to faithfully reproduce the content of my .ogg files. > > Can you offer any recommendation(s)? > > A question I am really curious about is whether all current sound cards > working under Linux output sound equally well, and just differ in their > input-processing / game-playing capabilities / etc, or they are also > different in what concerns output-quality. > > Thank you for your hindsight, > > Joane Lispton > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sound" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sound" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org