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Re: sound card



On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:49:38AM +0800, Katipo wrote:
> Wayne Sitton wrote:
> >I'm looking to buy a high end sound card to do alot of audio editing and
> >such.  The Creative SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro seems to have everything
> >I want.  I googled to see if there was any mention of wheather or not it
> >will work under linux.  If anybody know if this will successfully run
> >under linux, I'd like to know, or at least recommend another product of
> >similar stature that is.
> >
> Hello Wayne,
> 
> I'm running the earlier model, the audigy platinum eX with the emu 
> driver with alsa.
> No problems.
> I would say that the same config. would also suit your card nicely.

Note that if you are going to need S/PDIF input from CDs,
soundblasters resample it to 48kHz. To get round this I recommend a
card based on the CMI8738DX chip. These are dirt cheap, so you could
use the CMI8738DX for S/PDIF in and the soundblaster for everything
else.

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