Im looking to get a realy small soundcard to go with my laptop when traveling. Ive tried the tiny little Behringer, it sucks.
http://www.behringer.com/UCA202/index.cfm?lang=eng
What about Audigy 2 NX, is it crap? Anyone know the latency of this card?
http://www.soundblaster.com/products/pr ... oduct=9103
Also this with the speaker docking module looks interesting:
http://www.soundblaster.com/products/pr ... duct=16642
I usualy prefer quality sound cards, but the size on this can come in handy when traveling.. As long as its no noise, and low latency.. The Audigy card does have some nice futures for its size: Optical in/out, Spdif out, line in, mic in, and 3 stereo outs it seems if you scroll down on the page.
Small sound cards: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX?
Small sound cards: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX?
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I know, but after they bought EMU, people are saying theyve got better.. Mid to late 90ties, if i remember correctly..YILA wrote:echo indigo..stear clear of soundblasters on princaple
The echo indigo seems realy nice! But you eigther have to choose between a card with stereo in + out, or only two stereo outs and no input. (dj model)
Id like bouth, but can settle with the first one a while.. Good tip, thanks!
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i've got the audigy2 zs...works ok. gets down to like 11ms latency for me and sounds fine. it is fragile tho so be careful. mine split in half when someone walked too far from my laptop with headphones on. it snapped back together and still works mostly, but the headphone jack is shot. good thing i have a motu 828mkii now tho.
Ops... ok, well then again its not so expencive to just buy a new one if it gets lost or destroyd. Though its not THAT cheaply priced...CatfishRivers wrote:i've got the audigy2 zs...works ok. gets down to like 11ms latency for me and sounds fine. it is fragile tho so be careful. mine split in half when someone walked too far from my laptop with headphones on. it snapped back together and still works mostly, but the headphone jack is shot. good thing i have a motu 828mkii now tho.
I've completely abandon Sound Blaster. They are rediculously poor products.ze2be wrote:Ops... ok, well then again its not so expencive to just buy a new one if it gets lost or destroyd. Though its not THAT cheaply priced...CatfishRivers wrote:i've got the audigy2 zs...works ok. gets down to like 11ms latency for me and sounds fine. it is fragile tho so be careful. mine split in half when someone walked too far from my laptop with headphones on. it snapped back together and still works mostly, but the headphone jack is shot. good thing i have a motu 828mkii now tho.
I used to own a zs and it sounds TERRIBLE! You have to run it at 96K to not sound like crap and this just eats your CPU.
I bought an echo Audio Indigo DJ (2 stereo out). there's also the indigo IO which which has an Input and output
http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/CardB ... /index.php
These are fantastic products.
Not as good as the emu but definately a good price/quality point.
Yes, im concidering those indigos.. And also this one: Tascam US-122L $139 http://www.tascam.com/details;8,15,69.htmlTwigg wrote:I've completely abandon Sound Blaster. They are rediculously poor products.ze2be wrote:Ops... ok, well then again its not so expencive to just buy a new one if it gets lost or destroyd. Though its not THAT cheaply priced...CatfishRivers wrote:i've got the audigy2 zs...works ok. gets down to like 11ms latency for me and sounds fine. it is fragile tho so be careful. mine split in half when someone walked too far from my laptop with headphones on. it snapped back together and still works mostly, but the headphone jack is shot. good thing i have a motu 828mkii now tho.
I used to own a zs and it sounds TERRIBLE! You have to run it at 96K to not sound like crap and this just eats your CPU.
I bought an echo Audio Indigo DJ (2 stereo out). there's also the indigo IO which which has an Input and output
http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/CardB ... /index.php
These are fantastic products.
Not as good as the emu but definately a good price/quality point.
The emu 0404 USB2 looks nice. Its about $199. http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp ... duct=15185
The emu and the tascam have midi also. Could come in handy. Though the size of theese things are actualy a bit bigger then id like. The indigo cards are perfect in size!