Laptop sound card for HD650s

monkey_boy · 3 Oct 2008 at 15:51

Spec me a Laptop sound card for Sennheiser HD650s

Hi All,

What are peoples reccommendations for an external sound card that:

-Will drive my headphones effectively
-is preferably PCMCIA, but not at the expence of reasonable quality
-Works with Vista 32-bit

The first point is the most important, because I only use headphones or the rubbish built in speakers.

Thanks very much in advance

monkey_boy · 7 Oct 2008 at 13:30

Just to add a bit to this in case anyone can help, I've looked at the audigy 2 zs but it doesn't say anything in particular about headphones whereas an Asus one i've seen says that it has a quality headphone amp built in. The downside to that one is that its usb rather than PCMCIA. Which would I be best to use?

monkey_boy · 8 Oct 2008 at 17:01

Thanks for that,

I've gone for a Headstage Lyrix Amp with a USB DAC so it should work as an external sound card. The bonus is that I should hopefully be able to use it with my iphone if i ever want to.

monkey_boy · 8 Oct 2008 at 17:56

That is useful, thank you. How did you get on with the Echo Indigo?