Best Audio card for Linux?
- Thread starter FatRakoon
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Well, the thing is, that I have tried the OnBoard and frankly, its awful.
The sound Quality is very poor compared to my cards, and not only that, but under heavy gaming, it jitters crackles and pharts badly, and it is simply not even remotely useable.
As for a DAC then sure, I have a couple, and also I have the Creative OMNI External USB and that does a great job, however, I want to have an internal card not a USB one. I also have a couple of other USB Audio devices and also a couple of FireWire ones, but again, they are external.
I have also bought HDMI Sound adapters that rob the Audio from the HDMI Output, and for most things, its actually ok, but I am not happy with that solution either!
I keep having to reset the audio from time to time with the creative cards and its getting on my nerves now.
Its gone again and I have been using a Logitech USB device for the headphones for the moment and thats doing a great job.
I may give up and use the OMNI again, but I dont want to.
I am now 100% on Linux and for this to be the ONE thing that sets me back, then I am going to kick myself.
The sound Quality is very poor compared to my cards, and not only that, but under heavy gaming, it jitters crackles and pharts badly, and it is simply not even remotely useable.
As for a DAC then sure, I have a couple, and also I have the Creative OMNI External USB and that does a great job, however, I want to have an internal card not a USB one. I also have a couple of other USB Audio devices and also a couple of FireWire ones, but again, they are external.
I have also bought HDMI Sound adapters that rob the Audio from the HDMI Output, and for most things, its actually ok, but I am not happy with that solution either!
I keep having to reset the audio from time to time with the creative cards and its getting on my nerves now.
Its gone again and I have been using a Logitech USB device for the headphones for the moment and thats doing a great job.
I may give up and use the OMNI again, but I dont want to.
I am now 100% on Linux and for this to be the ONE thing that sets me back, then I am going to kick myself.
Just a small update on my setup at the moment.
First off. I did another fix and thats sorted the card out again.
Now, some time ago I bought a handful of second hand USB Sound devices for my Laptop as I use that for recording music from my Atari setup, and I had huge LAG and so I tried a few things and ended up with a seriously nice Beringer USB I/O box that cured my Woes.
I did actually buy a few other cheap and nasty things, but I did come across a couple of really nice sounding ones... and sure they are not the best, but, I dug them out and had a play with them.
I was comparing them with the Creative OMNI and in truth, I found one that seems to have a more natural war sound to it and I really really like it. I dont know the exact model, because the sticker has worn off it, but its a Lexicon and I have been using that now for a fair while and I am going to stick with it.
I know the original plan was to have a card, but sod it... This seems to be a really nice sound that I like.
Just saying.
First off. I did another fix and thats sorted the card out again.
Now, some time ago I bought a handful of second hand USB Sound devices for my Laptop as I use that for recording music from my Atari setup, and I had huge LAG and so I tried a few things and ended up with a seriously nice Beringer USB I/O box that cured my Woes.
I did actually buy a few other cheap and nasty things, but I did come across a couple of really nice sounding ones... and sure they are not the best, but, I dug them out and had a play with them.
I was comparing them with the Creative OMNI and in truth, I found one that seems to have a more natural war sound to it and I really really like it. I dont know the exact model, because the sticker has worn off it, but its a Lexicon and I have been using that now for a fair while and I am going to stick with it.
I know the original plan was to have a card, but sod it... This seems to be a really nice sound that I like.
Just saying.