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
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.
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 )
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.
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