Hi Roger,
I would have to disagree with you about the quality of Creative cards,
purely because they completely abandon their drivers, when the card is
discontinued. That means that that wonderful sound card has a shelf life
of
probably six months or so, until they bring out a new one. Then you'll
probably find that it won't work on Vista <Smile>. I hate creative now,
crackly cards, sample rates dropping at the drop of a hat, and generally
pretty poor under XP. I have one, and I am looking for a different card.
The Emu sounds a good bet, but I want to see some reviews first. If you
want to just have speech rattling from your card, then creative is a good
bet, but if you are a sound enthusiast, forget it!
All the best
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
roger south
Sent: 30 June 2006 09:52
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: EMU SOUND CARDS
Hi Carol
Nothing to do with EMU as I've never heard of them but I've just been
looking on the Ebuyer site for another reason and note they're doing a
special offer on the Creative Labs. Audigy 2 EZ Platinum with the front
panel to place in a tower bay. For an incredible £57 including VAT. To my
mind the top of the range sound card with fantastic sound quality now at
an
unbelievable price.
Roger
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access UK Mailing List" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 7:50 AM
Subject: [access-uk] EMU SOUND CARDS
Hi all,
Although I realise there are perhaps more appropriate lists for such
questions, I have already tried and have had very little response.
Seeing
a reference in another post to EMU sound cards on this list, I started to
troll the Internet but, as always, got rather tired . . .. Hope you'll
therefore be able to respond to this one.
I'm looking for a better quality (not necessarily top range) sound card,
preferably that has ins and outs on the front of the computer. In
addition, I need something operating completely independently from the
AC97 so as to avoid any possible hitches in having two sound cards
running
on this computer.
Any suggestions most welcome, then I can limit the amount of searching
through reviews that I need to do.
Thanks.
--
Carol
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