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New PC - Xeon or Opteron?
kitamesume:
how about splitting the workload then? soundcard + recorder, its not like $160+$40 or so is any more expensive than the other $200 cards.
Pentium100:
A separate digital recorder (though IIRC they are more expensive than $40)? Yea, if I need high quality, I can record to my MD recorder (in uncompressed PCM mode of course) and then transfer to PC, the only limit here is the ~30min length limit if I record to standard MD (in Hi-MD mode) and Hi-MD disks are expensive. However, what I also like it listening to music while playing a game (if the game has no background music or I do not like the in-game music).
If you are talking about a USB audio input device, then the problem becomes that USB has a lot of latency (not good if I want to record video).
Pentium100:
The members of another forum (audio related) suggested I buy a ESI Juli@ XTe card - it costs a bit more than Creative ZxR, but they say it is much higher quality. Well, when the time comes to choose (not this month) hopefully I will choose wisely :)
kitamesume:
the design is quite, umm, unique. and the color theme is sooo cute.
is there a technical review on it though? because their paperspecs seems to be a bit on the disappointing side, specially when its over $200.
on a side note, why did they use a VIA envy24HT...
Pentium100:
They said the main thing of the "pro" sound cards is the fact that they do not use sample rate conversion and sync to the input instead (with optional SRC done in software in case two source with different sample rates are playing). However, it looks like the ZxR also can do it (Stereo Direct mode, though whether it is only for 192kHz sample rate I do not know). My current X-Fi can be switched to any sample rate.
As for the VIA chip - as I understand the Juli@ is an old design - for the PCi-e version they just added PCI-e to PCI bridge.
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