Mike Rivers wrote:
On 10/25/2010 6:57 PM, Jay Ts wrote:
aside from learning through a
discussion here that my Audiophile 2496 (arguably) has a design
problem,
On the Internet, anything can have a design problem. What
problem do you think it has, and more importantly, how do
you think it affects you? It's been around for a mighty long
time to have a design problem that needs to be address.
I've been looking around for a better card to see if
I can find one with better performance and will work in my next
computer, which may not have PCI slots.
It's really a sad situation. You'll probably have to look at
USB or Firewire cards, and neither are really very good for
handling audio data. Perhaps you should think about how you
can keep your present computer running for another ten years.
I don't have any experience with this company at all, but one
of the things I found doing "Internet research" was the ESI
"Juli@" [sic.] cards. The specs look good, and I found positive
comments. Any one here know about this product, and the company?
I'm especially interested in driver development.
It's a big company that has very little market penetration.
Nobody knows anything bad about them, because nobody knows
much about them. And NOBODY outside of the very inner circle
knows anything about driver development. I think that Lynx
knows what they're doing but I don't know about anyone else.
And all of this Firewire stuff seems to be
hardware-dependent. Some things work fine with one chipset
on the computer end and not with another, and there's very
little that's universally compatible or incompatible. In
other words, you don't know until you try, and if it doesn't
work, you'll blame "the driver," which won't get fixed.
It's a jungle out there. Better start thinking about analog
tape if you want to get any useful work done. 
Or get a Mac and a Metric Halo interface. (Not aiming to start a
platform discussion.) That combo works pretty well. MH isn't cheap, but
the performance is, IMO, extraordinarily good for what it costs.
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