Guest pantro Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 I went to my nearest big computer market and it seems that the highest quality soundcard i can get is a soundblaster live, cant remember more especific the model but is about that.....they told me that its really highquality for a home producing studio, and its only 240$, should i buy it while getting an expensive (long time for that)...or should i reconcider of searching further? tnx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest etherdesign Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 to get better soundcards you'll have to go to a music shop, not a computer store.. all the stuff at the computer shop will be consumer-grade, tailored mostly to playing games with 3D sound, watching dolby digital surround movies, etc.. if you already have a soundcard that does what you need it to do in those aspects than you can do alot better in terms of quality than a SB card, and for the same price or less.. You can get an M-Audio Audiophile for about $180, an M-Audio Delta 44 for $230 (www.m-audio.com), a Echo Mia for $200 (www.echoaudio.com).. Those cards all have much higher AD/DA converters/connectors than the SB series and will reproduce sound better, also they are all true 24/96 cards, which the Audigy is not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rishi Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 M-Audio Delta 44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest p480 Posted February 17, 2002 Share Posted February 17, 2002 the digital to analog converters on your soundcard are only for your monitoring purposes, since i asume you are going to be mixing digitally. and unless you are going to do any sampling (recording) the analog to digital converters dont matter either. the program that you use (cubase, logic) does the mixing in the software so the soundcard only becomes an issue when you are concerned about audio latency. The SBlive will work fine. if you run win98 you can use the APS (ASIO) drivers (http://come.to/sblive) for the SB live getting the cubase latency down to around 9ms. There is no reason to buy the expensive version of the SBlive since it is the same card as the value w/ useless features. (get the SBlive value) M-audio is the way to go if you can afford it. Great cards w/ the same converters as the Hammerfall cards (studio standard recording card for PC). If you want a dsp card (on-card fx and synths) w/ crazy routing capabilities that gets down to 2ms latency, check out creamware cards. They are absolutely insane! (expensive though) good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest insane behavior Posted February 24, 2002 Share Posted February 24, 2002 buy luna and the sts5000 or pulsar.. then u have the ultimate soundcard its a onetime buy.... bombalaa BoBo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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