Re: [OT] Best sound card for Linux

[Noah L. Meyerhans]

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On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:

 I'm building another machine for someone and I need to know which
 sound cards give good perfomance under Linux.
 

I'm thrilled with my new Trident 4D Wave based card.  The one I got cost
me about $19 including shipping from Onsale.com.  My specific model is the
Jaton SonicWave 4D.  It shouldn't be too tough to find.  Trident very
graciously provided full hardware specs and programming info to the ALSA
people, so ALSA support is great.  It was an absolute breaze to install
and configure.

noah

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Re: [OT] Best sound card for Linux

[Sean]

I've been incredibly pleased with my Ensonic AudioPCI (es1370).  The kernel 
support
for this card is excellent, and it produces nice clean sound.  The only 
drawback is
that it doesn't have hardware-based MIDI capabilities.  For me, though, this is 
a
non-issue, as I hardly ever listen to MIDI and on the odd occasions when I do,
timidity does a fine job.

Sean



Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:

 Has anyone got a card they're happy with?

Re: [OT] Best sound card for Linux

[Steve Gore]

On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 03:24:38PM -0400, Sean wrote:
 I've been incredibly pleased with my Ensonic AudioPCI (es1370).  The kernel 
 support
 for this card is excellent, and it produces nice clean sound.  The only 
 drawback is
 that it doesn't have hardware-based MIDI capabilities.  For me, though, this 
 is a
 non-issue, as I hardly ever listen to MIDI and on the odd occasions when I do,
 timidity does a fine job.
 
 Sean
 
 
 
 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
 
  Has anyone got a card they're happy with?
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I second Sean's endorsement.  I've been very pleased with My Ensonic AudioPCI.
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Regards,
Steve