RME Digi 96/8 Pad A Good Choice?
Dec 30, 2003 at 8:52 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 36
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I am considering purchasing this sound card as a reasonable comprimise between my painfully tight college budget and the screaming demands for a better source coming from my HD650/cardas/MOH(R) combo.

Good choice?

Cheers,
Geek
 
Dec 30, 2003 at 9:42 AM Post #2 of 36
definitely, the only think that matters is for how much are you able to get it
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Dec 30, 2003 at 3:01 PM Post #3 of 36
Price is not a concern. All that matters is that it tides me over for at least half a year, until I can actually earn some money (summer is wedding season, and that's when I make the most spending money).

I'll post some initial impressions when I receive it (and I'll be sure to use more than just 128k mp3s!).

Cheers,
Geek
 
Dec 30, 2003 at 6:08 PM Post #5 of 36
I recommend getting it also. It's a good upgrade step to eventually get an external DAC and more.
 
Dec 30, 2003 at 9:39 PM Post #6 of 36
ORDERED from JDaudio, total cost came to $313 or so including shipping.

Once again I'll post some initial impressions when I have installed the card.

I'm not too concerned about driver issues or CPU hassles. . . I'm able to run UT2003 dead smooth on my current setup, and that's really the only taxing game I play (Q3 runs with 6x antialiasing and 16x anistropic filtering and maximum quality settings at 1024x768 at over 120fps, and that's the second contender for performance).

Do I need to buy any converters? I am using Dimarzio M-Path RCA cables to my Maxed Out Home amp.

Cheers,
Geek
 
Dec 30, 2003 at 9:44 PM Post #7 of 36
Since the card has 1/4" jack, You'll need a 1/4" to RCA adaptor.
 
Dec 30, 2003 at 9:48 PM Post #8 of 36
Thanks. I'll be sure to pick one up at radio shack this week sometime.

Cheers,
Geek
 
Dec 31, 2003 at 4:49 AM Post #10 of 36
I'm not going to purchase another sound card. I only made the jump to this device because (1) a vinyl setup which matches my current amp/phones is almost ten times my maximum price limit and (2) I have 130 CDs which need to be preserved and converted into FLAC and stored on my HDD.

While I think vinyl is a better format, digital in the form of computer audio is amazingly versatile, and it can sound very good indeed: I was impressed by the M-audio revolution but still was left wanting more, so I bought this little $300 gadget. I want to make my music listening experience satisfactory, stepping up beyond the grainy, colored, bloated sound of the turtle beach santa cruz, which is my current card.

I currently spend about 8-10 hours of my life per day sitting on the computer. Therefore, this upgrade is logical.

Cheers,
Geek
 
Dec 31, 2003 at 5:39 AM Post #11 of 36
Quote:

Originally posted by Geek
I'm not going to purchase another sound card. I only made the jump to this device because (1) a vinyl setup which matches my current amp/phones is almost ten times my maximum price limit and (2) I have 130 CDs which need to be preserved and converted into FLAC and stored on my HDD.


Hate to break it to you, but no soundcard whatsoever is required to "rip" CDs to a hard drive and convert them to FLAC. You can do it on a PC with no sound card installed.
 
Dec 31, 2003 at 4:19 PM Post #12 of 36
fewtch,

There's no point at all ripping songs to FLAC when .wav files and 128k .mp3 files sound almost exactly the same!

I.e., I don't have a reason to do it yet because my source is so bad. I'm just waiting until I can actually get some benefit out of doing it.

Cheers,
Geek
 
Dec 31, 2003 at 4:26 PM Post #13 of 36
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Originally posted by Edwood
Yeah, price went back up. We all killed the deals pretty quick.
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You're buying the RME PAD to tide you over for only 6 months?!

LOL, which soundcard are you going to buy next?

-Ed


There's always the lynx 2
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Dec 31, 2003 at 6:24 PM Post #14 of 36
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Originally posted by Geek

There's no point at all ripping songs to FLAC when .wav files and 128k .mp3 files sound almost exactly the same!


You are kidding right? Not even the guys at Hydrogen Audio would say that 128K MP3s sound like wav files. 192K, okay that's more like it, but 128K, not even close.

Sorry to bust on you since I think you were likely joking, but I just couldn't let your statement go--it might be misleading for people new to lossy compresion codecs (of which MP3 is one).
 
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