[mythtv-users] which sound card to get?

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Mar 13, 2006, at 00.17, Raphael Pooser wrote:

> It seems that it has come time for me to get a new soundcard.  My
> onboard sound does very well, when it works.  However, every now and
> then it does a very odd thing.  One recording will be fine but then  
> the
> very next recording could have amazingly bad sound.  It sounds as  
> if the
> sample rate as dropped to and extremely low value, and in addition,  
> all
> the sounds have a strange high pitched nature to them, as if the  
> bottom
> range of frequencies had been simply thrown out or as if the speakers
> were holding metal tubes up to their mouths.
Is it out of the realm of possibility that this is a problem with  
your recordings? Just checking.
> It seems that it happens right after having successfully recording
> another show, but not always.  It is so rare that I have never been  
> able
> to find the cause of it.  However, now it seems like it's always  
> rearing
> it's ugly head when there's a show I had particularly been waiting  
> for.
> What are some good PCI sound cards I can try?  I see some audigies on
> ebay for cheap.  I've heard audigy 2's don't work so well, with sound
> dropping out or causing crackels and pops.  I have a Live value that
> does just that.  I also have an aureal vortex 3d that is simply, to  
> put
> it mildly, crap in linux.
Sound Blaster Live! cards are pretty good. They're not too expensive,  
and have, from my experience, great support in Linux. I ran a PC with  
a Sound Blaster Live! Value and the system ran the emu10k1 chip with  
no problems I could detect. Of course, we'd need to know a little bit  
more about your specifications. Do you need 5.1? Optical? Any special  
requirements like that.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
No problem.
> Raphael
"'What? Fly to the Moon? For Goodness Sakes!' My mother thought she  
had raised some kind of imbicle son, because I would say 'We're going  
to fly to the moon!'"
     --David Kyle (Author of A Pictoral History of Science Fiction on  
the Moon Landing)
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