Hi, I belive that creative's soundblasters are well supported under Linux. The bigger versions (they vary between $200-$800 I belive) have loads of input and output types and they deliver very good sound.
Greetz, Sebastiaan On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > I am constructing a machine that will be used as a dedicated MP3 player. > I need a bit of input regarding what sound card to put in it. Pretty > much the only cards I've got experience with are Trident chipset based. > The chipset is well supported in ALSA, but the card is pretty low > quality (only cost $10). > > Whatever card I get should be fully supported by ALSA. I'd like decent > line-in support. I have a pretty big cassette collection and would like > to record the contents to disk before the quality degrades too far. > > It would also be nice to have both amplified and unamplified output. At > the moment the card will be plugged in to a set of "multimedia" speakers > but may in the future be hooked up to a real stereo amp. > > Does anybody here have experience with such a system setup? What's an > appropriate card? > > Thanks. > noah > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > >
