[BC] Re: Sound card ideas

[Mark Croom]

I've become a fan of the M-Audio cards in your price range, after using a
bunch of Echo Labs cards and finding a number of weaknesses in them,
especially drivers that would break in certain applications (iMedia Logger
most notably).

Anyway the audiophile 2496 is unbalanced (RCA inputs) but gives really nice
results, and slightly out of your price range is the Audiophile 192 that has
1/4" TRS balanced I/O.

http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=AUDIOPHILE2496

http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=AUDIOPHILE192

They make really nice audio in lots of different PCs around my stations.

BSW is not the only vendor of course--I've bought them from music stores
sometimes.

Mark
MN

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Mark Earle <mearle at mearle.com> wrote:

> Perhaps a can of worms?  I'm looking for a mid-level and not too expensive
> sound card.
>
> The use is torecord phone calls for later on-air playback. The $20 level
> cards and the internal on-board sound sets just are not quite up to this
> task.
>
> But I can't afford the price of an Audio Science, as we have in our
> automation PCs.
>
> Would prefer balanced in and out, but I can forego that if necessary. My
> price point is $100-150 for the card alone.
>
> Think then a "modern" computer to replace the P2-300 doing this chore at
> present. Even a Celeron would be a step up.
>
> I'm doing some research but if anyone has good recomendations or places to
> buy that would be appreciated.
>
> --
> mwe
>