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Re: [OT] sound card recommendations



I like my Ensonique.  Its a model 1370 I believe.

On Thursday 18 January 2001 11:41, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:

> > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:22:49PM -0500, Sean wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, the 4DWave is what I've now.  It's good, and cheap, and I do
> appreciate that they've supported free driver development.  I've bought
> 2 of their cards because of that.  However, the card isn't really
> appropriate for my needs.  The system will be an MP3 server so I need an
> unamplified line-out port (as it will eventually plug in to a stereo
> amp) and a good line-in.  The 4DWave's line-in is pretty bad.
> Definitely not something I'd use to record music from an audio tape.
>
> It seems as though Creative is pretty good about releasing driver info
> on most of their cards.  There's a lot of support for them in ALSA, in
> any case.  They get pretty expensive, though.
>
> noah

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