[mythtv-users] Best Soundcard?

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 19:09:34 UTC 2005


On Thursday 13 October 2005 14:29, Brian Bosch wrote:
> On 10/13/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 14:03, Derek Meek wrote:
> > > so what sound card (or AMD-CPU motherboard with integrated sound) would
> >
> > you
> >
> > > recommend - i noticed the ~$80 price for the audigy 2 zs plat. pro was
> > > 'noise' on pricewatch and the cheapest one is actually $200, which is
> >
> > waay
> >
> > > too much
> >
> > I've found the NForce3 and NForce4 boards with built in ALC655 and ALC855
> > chips always have at optical if not optical and coax outputs on board. I
> > like
> > the ECS, MSI and Gigabyte boards.
>
> FWIW, my MSI "K7N2GM2-LSR" has an S/PDIF connector on the motherboard, but
> it did not come with an S/PDIF bracket to connect to it -- the bracket was
> optional. I found it surprisingly difficult to find one later... So just a
> heads-up; if you are going to go with on-board audio make sure that you get
> all of the connections that you'll need for your situation.

Good point, some boards include the connectors as part of their back panel and 
some require an optional bracket. From what I've seen the newer boards 
include the connector, for instance my ECS KN1 board has optical and coax 
onboard, as does the MSI K8N board I'm looking at.

Steve


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