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great audiophile PC soundcard?

Archive · 2008 7 old posts

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infuzion ·

I have a friend who sells

0,000+ USD home TV & sound systems for a living, and also is a giging musician who is building a home recording studio. Seems she already spent quite alot on gear, but hasn't gotten around to buying an audio card for her Vista system until now.
000+ USD isn't a problem.

I'm only familiar with budget/value cards. Off hand, I'd say RME, but I'm not sure about other manufacturers or even what RME model to get...? Thanks for your help!

AngularMomentum ·

RME is very good from what I read. You might want to check MOTU as well. They got some excellent stuff.

http://www.motu.com/products

Nu Audio Science ·

RME and MOTU offer the smallest roundtrip latency Motu has a bit of a reputation of skimping on the components on the built in pres so an out board pre is recommended Other than that you will not get recomendations any higher for both makes

I use Yamaha but will upgrade eventaully to one of these 😉

NAS

Andrew J ·

Should also consider Lynx Studio Technology. These are highly recommended by reputable DAW builders.

aliasant ·

I was making the same choice a couple of months back. Between a good RME Fireface or MOTU Traveler.

I ended up with the traveler and it sounds fantastic. THey have upgraded the mic pres in this one so I think it sounds even better then the original Traveler. As NAS said they did cheat some on parts in the mic pres and that was a bad idea. Hundreds of Travelers were sent back because of problems. Mine included. Twice actullay. But they were nice. The store even drove home to me to deliver the new ones with the upgraded pres. Now it sounds smashing. =)

It has all the Ins and Outs you would like but to be honest. Its not working great with windows. Its made for Mac and their support is also mainly towards Mac users. If you say your having problems with your pc you will probably not even get a reply 😉

I think RME might be better if the studio is built around a pc.

bootsy ·

+1 RME - beside audio quality they give you super low latency and the drivers don't harm your CPU at all. Very well programmed.

infuzion ·

aliasant wrote: Hundreds of Travelers were sent back because of problems. Mine included. Twice actually.

Hmmm, that sounds like a vote against Travelers, since I don't think she has the time for all that.

Think of it this way; she sells

000USD CD players. If her customers had to send it back twice to "make it sound right", would she not lose face?

Sounds like RME for her; thanks for all the insights guys!

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