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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 07:11:10 +1100
From: James Gregory <pgregory@thepla.net>
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Subject: Re: Which HiFi sound-card to by?
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Just wondering, did you want a good soundcard to record the cd's, or to
play them back. Most sound cards will have little trouble playing back
cd-quality audio through their pcm out, if you just wanted to record, I
would look into something like CD-paranoia to copy the cd's digitally, and
something like bladeenc to encode them into mp3, if that's how you wanted
them. If you are concerned about S/N ratio, have a look at Creative Lab's
Audiopci cards, the one's based on the ES1370 or ES1371, they have probably
got the best S/N on a budget card. I run one, am very happy with it,
apparently the noise floor is something like -80db which at a reasonable
volume level is hardly audible. If at all. Keep the card away from any
other components (particularly hard disks and CPU's) if you want to avoid
electromagnetic noise.

That's my 2c worth

Jim.

Jan Bertelsen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running ALSA (driver: 0.2.0-pre10p1, lib: 0.1.3 utils: 0.0.7) on my
> laptop (Chicony MP-979) which have a Yamaha YMF715 sound-chip. ALSA was
> compiled, configured and installed without any problem and the mixer and
> the PCM-device are working realy good  :-) (I havn't tested the rest of
> the functions yet.)
>
> (well, I had some problems but that was due to my lacking knowledge on
> Linux...)
>
> So, thanks to all involved in this great project!! Realy good work!
>
> As my CD-player is getting old, I'm planning to put all my CD's on a PC
> with a HiFi sound-card (and a big HD :-). To that project I'm looking
> for a hi-quality PCI-soundcard supported by ALSA; at least the mixer and
> the PCM-device must be of HiFi-quality.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jan
>
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