Soundcard Suggestions?

onelung02 · 02-13-2005, 10:18 PM

I am shopping around for a new soundcard and I was wondering if anyone has some good suggestions for one. I am running Slack 10.0 and just curious if anyone has one that they can get true 5.1 out of, and something that just works really well with linux. Thanks!

-Onelung

ilikejam · 02-13-2005, 10:49 PM

Hi.

It's USB, but it does proper 5.1 channel, and has digital ins and outs as well:
http://newsen.terratec.net/modules.p...d=178&menu=113

I'm using one right now (in-kernel ALSA drivers).

Dave

onelung02 · 02-13-2005, 11:15 PM

And how is the sound quality on that one Dave?

onelung02 · 02-13-2005, 11:35 PM

I have been looking into that card and one review that I read stated that it didn't have some new DVD audio support, have you had any problems with that?

Does anyone else have any other card suggestions?

-onelung

ilikejam · 02-13-2005, 11:43 PM

The analogue out sound quality is actually very good. I'm using the digital connections with an outboard DAC, so it's not much of a concern for me personally.

The unit can only do sampling rates up to 48kHz, and is 16 bit only, so it can't do high quality DVD-A (96kHz, 24 bit for example), but for watching DVD videos it's not really a problem - Xine can resample to 48kHz if needed. I have tested the card with all sorts of commercial DVDs and haven't had any problems.

Dave

reddazz · 02-13-2005, 11:49 PM

I have had great success with creative soundlaster cards. They seem to just work for me on Linux and FreeBSD.

onelung02 · 02-14-2005, 12:05 AM

My SB Live! just crapped out on me lol. I am trying to find something that I can have 5.1 audio with in linux, and so far this aureon has been the only one that I have read can do it. I know alot of the SAY they can, but to no avail.