I'm looking for a good soundcard for linux. I guess my onboard one doesnt cut it, keeps detecting it as an intel8x0 or some shit. Don't suppose a high end audigy would be good for it?
I've never had any problem with emu10k1, which I think is the same chip as an audigy (mine was a live)
I never had any problems with any soundcard I've ever had (soundblaster and a couple of onboard). However, setting it up in the first place was often a pain.
Side-comment: soundblasters are the utter dregs of soundcards. They were the standard once, but are utter junk now. Either stick with onboard, or get something decent like an M-Audio.
>>3 Umm... I don't record music so... Why would I want an M-Audio? They dont even have Dolby Digital?
It's not a question of "why would I want an M-Audio?" It's a question of "why would I want a Creative?"
Creative is still well-known due to the momentum it built up during the DOS-era, but the cards have been a joke for almost a decade. It doesn't help that their windows drivers are also buggy. Onboard sound is good enough now that there really is no reason to buy a Creative, unless you like wasting money.
As for dolby... on linux? Well, you can get surround from M-Audio too: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Revolution71-main.html
Really, it's not Creative. It's anything but Creative.
But MP3's sound like shit on M-Audio.
As opposed to Creative, where everything sounds like shit.
Who listens to 128kbps MP3s anymore anyway?
Who doesnt is the question you should be asking. BTW, how can you say everything sounds like shit on Creative? I highly doubt you've ever compared the two together.
Because I use expensive headphones (beats paying several thousand dollars for an amp and speakers). I hear bad sound. And 128kbps MP3s aren't that common anymore; it's easy to make (or acquire, you bad person you) higher bitrates.
Yes, I've owned a Creative. The S/N ration on that POS was horrible, and I could hear system noise constantly.
The question I should ask you is why you are so defensive about Creative. Brand-name loyalty is silly; it's not like Creative is your lover or owes you something. Nor is Creative's inferior cards a big secret: go read hydrogenaudio or any other major audio forum some time.
In all fairness, I hear the Audigy2 is not all that bad, but that makes it the only one (and there are cheaper and better cards out there, hah).
You're obviously a wanna-be audiophile. "Expensive Headphones"lol.
The best you can come up with is some misguided ad hominem?
How expensive is expensive? I have Sony MDR-V6 (which, although dirt cheap by audiophile standards, are apparently popular among recording studio engineers) and I couldn't hear this bad audio.
A five year old pair of Koss. Cost me $150, so not exactly audiophile-expensive (just bum-poor-student-expensive).
What specific card do you have?