On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:11:07PM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I'd like a good 16 bit stereo sound card that I can use for playing Oggs > and MP3s, maybe do some Voice over IP, and for playing CDs on my PC. But I > want this card to be as good as possible given that it's just 16 bit stereo. > > Ideally it would have an external pod containing all the analog circuitry, > so the audio circuits would be isolated from the electrical noise inside > the PC case. All the professional sound cards do this, but I don't know if > any consumer sound cards do. > > My hopeful new sound card will need to work with Linux, BeOS and Windows > 2000. Extra credit if the card's vendor provides complete hardware specs to > Free Software developers.
You can get these "external pods" as hi-fi separates, which you can connect to your sound card via S/PDIF. I have a circuit diagram for an outboard ADC which I could send you if you wish. The sound card I would recommend for this would be anything using the CMI8738 chipset that has S/PDIF I/O. Don't get a Soundblaster as their S/PDIF is broken. It works in Windoze and Linux (use ALSA and/or kernel 2.4.22 with latest ac patch), no idea about BeOS. The C-Media website provides an incomplete set of register definitions; the complete set is available at the cost of some googling and sending of emails. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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