Re: [OT] sound card recommendations
Before spending hundreds, I'd look into spending about $50 for a Trident
4DWave. The ALSA support is great, and you can help show your support for a
company that released their hardware specifications so good Linux drivers
could be built.
Sean
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 11:14, Sebastiaan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I belive that creative's soundblasters are well supported under Linux. The
> bigger versions (they vary between $200-$800 I belive) have loads of input
> and output types and they deliver very good sound.
>
> Greetz,
> Sebastiaan
>
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> > I am constructing a machine that will be used as a dedicated MP3 player.
> > I need a bit of input regarding what sound card to put in it. Pretty
> > much the only cards I've got experience with are Trident chipset based.
> > The chipset is well supported in ALSA, but the card is pretty low
> > quality (only cost $10).
> >
> > Whatever card I get should be fully supported by ALSA. I'd like decent
> > line-in support. I have a pretty big cassette collection and would like
> > to record the contents to disk before the quality degrades too far.
> >
> > It would also be nice to have both amplified and unamplified output. At
> > the moment the card will be plugged in to a set of "multimedia" speakers
> > but may in the future be hooked up to a real stereo amp.
> >
> > Does anybody here have experience with such a system setup? What's an
> > appropriate card?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > noah
> >
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