Hallo, Carlo Capocasa hat gesagt: // Carlo Capocasa wrote: But there are no cheap FW cards out there at all, except the Behringer, which isn't supported AFAIK. And latency numbers are irrelevant when listening to music. Plus: Most laptops only have firewire connectors that cannot be used to power the FW soundcard, so you cannot use it without an external power supply. Nice card, dead easy to set up and will play MP3s with acceptable quality (you won't get 24bit/96kHz out of "CD-quality" music anyways, so if listening to that kind of music is your priority, those higher output formats aren't of much use to you). Has 6-channel output so you can even use it for DJing with Mixxx etc. The internal adc/dac is only operating at 20bits, though. I have used the card on stage, but I've upgraded to the Terratec Phase26 by now which has better sound quality because of better converters. However I think the Aureon has a really good price/performance+features ratio that is very hard to beat. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__

Hi Frank Frank> Hallo, Frank> Carlo Capocasa hat gesagt: // Carlo Capocasa wrote: Frank> But there are no cheap FW cards out there at all, except Frank> the Behringer, which isn't supported AFAIK. And latency Frank> numbers are irrelevant when listening to music. Plus: Most Frank> laptops only have firewire connectors that cannot be used Frank> to power the FW soundcard, so you cannot use it without an Frank> external power supply. Yes. They are much more expensive. I only think I will a firewre card if I can get hold of a used one cheap. Most of them also use coaxial spdif instead of toslink. Most of the devices I have use toslink..but then I have a computer with coax Frank> Nice card, dead easy to set up and will play MP3s with Frank> acceptable quality (you won't get 24bit/96kHz out of Frank> "CD-quality" music anyways, so if listening to that kind of Frank> music is your priority, those higher output formats aren't Frank> of much use to you). Has 6-channel output so you can even Frank> use it for DJing with Mixxx etc. The internal adc/dac is Frank> only operating at 20bits, though. Yes I maybe think the Audiotrak uses a better converter(but then I lose the toslink spdif input). The distributor of Terratec producer & Auditrak in Denmark is writing on his page that the audiotrak optoplay uses the AKM AK4353 DA 24bit/96kHz which he says is the same Terratec Producer uses About the cd-quality and 24bit/96kHz. I have seen that some of the hifi cdplayers(Thule Audio) is actually upsampling in some of the models and says that by doing that they can make the filters better, but I don't know is this is just marketing hype Frank> I have used the card on stage, but I've upgraded to the Frank> Terratec Phase26 by now which has better sound quality Frank> because of better converters. However I think the Aureon Frank> has a really good price/performance+features ratio that is Frank> very hard to beat. Yes I know the Terratec producers card..have actually recommended them. A long time ago I had an Terratec EWS 64 XL ;-) And got my father to buy and MT-88 I think it was called. I actually like terratec's cards...and that was also the card I found first in my search In Denmark the Audiotrak optoplay cost about 66,7 euro & the Terratec Aurion is 46,7 euro Thanks for the answers Hasse