Best sound card for playback quality?

[Davidc]

Any of use guys have preferences there? I've heard that the creative cards downsample everything to 48k if the file is, for example, 96k or higher.

 

[nodle]

I've heard that M-audio sound cards are good. i just use my onboard HD sound

 

[Davidc]

I've heard that M-audio sound cards are good. i just use my onboard HD sound

They's not too bad. I've been scoping out one called Lynx. They are allegedly revered as high end.

 

[Davidc]

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/lynxtwo/index.html

 

[Davidc]

One nice feature of Winamp is the ability to see if it's outputing the proper sampled rate along with bit rate. Example below:

Output format: 96000 Hz, 24 bits per sample, 2 channels

Active buffer size: 2000 ms (1152000 bytes)

Device: "M-Audio Revolution"

Mixing: software, primary buffer: inactive

Buffer playback cursor: 1149654 bytes

[================================================================]

Buffer write cursor: 1131654 bytes

[===============================================================#]

Data buffered:

Total: 1984 ms (1142826 bytes)

Async buffer: 15 ms (8826 bytes)

Buffer locks done: 966

Underruns: 0

Time played: 0:29.995 (17277654 bytes)

Time written: 0:31.980 (18420480 bytes)

Total time played: 13:51:11.733

Volume: -8.668247 dB / -8.668247 dB

 

[nodle]

Do you use Winamp?

 

[Davidc]

Do you use Winamp?

Either Winamp or Foobar2000          It's unsettled at this point.