m-audio audiophile 192

[willawake]

m-audio audiophile 192.



who put so many g-luxon on my new card.......gonna have to mod that.

sounds pretty damn good though, exactly the detailed sound i was looking for. lol thought i was upsampling to 192khz, i though shit this upsampling thing really works no it was set to 44.1

[stretch0069]

Re: new audio card

whats the big black connector for??? a breakout box of sorts?????

[willawake]

Re: new audio card

yeh ugly breakout cable.

[willawake]

Re: m-audio audiophile 192

in the end i am more pleased with it than the m-audio 2496 which is also an excellent and cheaper card but i find the 2496 highs particularly on hihats to be mildly offensive.

you can keep your soundblasters and bloatware.

RME are also supposed to be excellent but better to get a 2496 cheap and output via spdif to a decent DAC. 2496 has a very nice spdif signal.

[Rainbow]

Re: m-audio audiophile 192

I still have SB AWE-64 Value And CMI-8329A based card (manufacturer unknown) in the other machine - this one has hardware MIDI wavetable (Dream) so MIDI sounds really good (much better than AWE64 )

[willawake]

Re: m-audio audiophile 192

I still have SB AWE-64 Value

one of my friends got a track on an amateur techno album made with awe64 and fasttracker

you can find cheap cards with same chip as m-audio : via envy. it is an awesome chip especially if card has AKM converters.

[linuxguru]

Re: m-audio audiophile 192

Luxons and Capxons sound pretty good for audio applications - you can leave those caps in until they fail (may not happen - this is a low ripple-current environment). At that time you can consider putting in Elna.

(I have a 12-year old Aztec Sound Galaxy filled with Elna caps that still sounds great).

On an unrelated note, I just recapped a few ISA 2-channel sound cards where the decoupling caps around the IC power amp looked iffy. Why bother? Because the Class-AB integrated amps on those cards sound *much better* than the Class-D crap on some of the newer cards. I use these on dedicated PI/PII MP3 systems.

[linuxguru]

Re: m-audio audiophile 192

BTW, do these cards have external DAC chips or are they integrated on the main DSP chip itself?

[willawake]

Re: m-audio audiophile 192

here is the ugly breakout cable - does balanced as well.



yeh it has AKM DACs you can see in the big pic in the attachments