Re: high quality sound card ???

[Jo Shields <jo.shields@oerc.ox.ac.uk>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:57:45PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
>   
> > For general ease of using legacy apps, aim for a card with hardware 
> > mixing. Which in most cases means an Audigy of some kind. Check 
> > http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Tag-HWMIX
> >     
>
> Don't current versions of ALSA do mixing automatically (for alsa apps,
> not OSS apps)?
>   

Yep. hence use of the term "legacy"

With a hardware-mixed card, it makes no difference what sound service 
your app expects, you can use all of them at once - OSS, ESD, JACK, 
ALSA, aRts