OTR-jkl wrote on Mon, 23 July 2007 13:25 |
Dave - I've been using this card for dig I/O within Samp and have had no issues with it. SPDIF is standard but you can get an add-on bracket for AES and optical. Only about that is the AES connections are 1/4" instead of XLR. AFAIK, it does not mess up dig audio in any way and should work fine for you.
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Well, the Lynx One is currently available for $405 street price and offers both AES & spdif i/o as standard, plus midi i/o & more importantly wordclock i/o - so for a mastering rig it's about same price new as the Card Deluxe but offers some features that aren't on the DAL card.
As far as cheap soundcards - the main downsides usually is the absence of word clock i/o. I have a Terratec Phase22 $100 card in one of DAW's for secondary coax spdif i/o (up to 192kHz) and it works fine when using the ASIO2 drivers.
For more full featured but pricier stuff I agree with the recommendations for RME - excellent driver support and a wide range of well made cards for most needs. I also really like the Mixtreme and Mixpander solutions from Sydec (now owned by SSL) too -
http://www.sydec.beFor most mastering rigs I think the best bet is either the Lynx AES-16 or the RME AES-32, or a Sydec Mixtreme192 tied to an Sydec/Apogee i/o896. All of these will run a bit more than a Lynx One though.
Best regards,
Steve Berson