PhoxHound
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The holiday season is approaching, and you know what that means: time to get new stuff. As much as I love my Xmod, I think an upgrade is in order. I have the ability to install an internal PCI sound card (read: not PCIe since I don't have any x1 slots) so I figure I may as well. Since I'm using going to be using an amp straight out of the sound card a line level out is necessary, and line level in is necessary also since I record mixes. MIDI is a very nice bonus, not required, but I'm much more likely to pick a card that has MIDI on it. For now I'm going to be using it with my Roland RH200, though in the future it may see use with a Denon D2000 or Sennheiser HD600. 150 dollars seems like a good price range to me.
It doesn't need to have any speaker outs: I have standard bookshelf speakers and an AV receiver.
The card I'm looking at right now is the ESI Juli@, which has a very appealing feature set at a reasonable price. Cards from the Asus Xonar series look good, but they don't have line level out; can this be compensated for by using the front speaker port? TigerDirect says that you can use the front speaker port for an amplifier...
It doesn't need to have any speaker outs: I have standard bookshelf speakers and an AV receiver.
The card I'm looking at right now is the ESI Juli@, which has a very appealing feature set at a reasonable price. Cards from the Asus Xonar series look good, but they don't have line level out; can this be compensated for by using the front speaker port? TigerDirect says that you can use the front speaker port for an amplifier...