Best Soundcard for Music Listening ?

HighlandeR · 23 Feb 2008 at 14:47

Starting to get FLAC/Lossless audio tracks rather then mp3s, so am looking to getting the best highend Soundcard for Music listening. Do gaming also, ive had Xfi but heard theres much better cards for just Music listening in the past.

Will be using my Audio Technic AD900 headphones also

Any suggestions welcome

Greenlizard0 · 23 Feb 2008 at 16:12

Erm, *subscribes to thread*

Good choice on headphones as well, I have the ATH A900's.

just Scott · 23 Feb 2008 at 16:37

Budget?

For a cheap one, look at the M-Audio Revolution 5.1. I got it for £35 on eBay and it was excellent.

But for the "best", you'd need to look into external DACs.

yantorsen · 23 Feb 2008 at 16:37

I have the ATH-T2's and Aego M's

with an Extreme Music, and music sounds great, certainly a lot better than onboard.

tbh I've noticed the difference more with music than in games.

theforce · 23 Feb 2008 at 18:51

If you don't want to spend a lot of cash then the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 is the best choice. I use Megaworks 550 THX and the music quality was apparent moving up from an Audigy2ZS.

HighlandeR · 23 Feb 2008 at 19:05

theforce said:
If you don't want to spend a lot of cash then the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 is the best choice. I use Megaworks 550 THX and the music quality was apparent moving up from an Audigy2ZS.

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/multimedia/m-audio-revolution51.html

X-Fi Xtreme Music vs Revolution5.1

If maximum volume levels are similar, Revolution5.1 offers better quality. X-Fi offers less details and worse articulation in low frequencies. Differences between the cards are reduced at lower volumes.

Seems it is better then xfi

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