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I'm considering about going for my old sound card (ESI Juli@) or trying out EMU 1212m. Those two are both extremely good professional sound cards and both support ASIO 2.0. Of course you can pay fortunes for some Lynx sound card but I don't think it's necessary. 1212m is about same price as Juli@ here in Finland, though there's one Juli@ at the FS forum here.
Do you have any other recommendations? I will only use the sound card as transport for my DAC. I use and will always use computer as my source so CDP's are out of question.
Originally Posted by Pricklely Peete /img/forum/go_quote.gif Agreed 100%. Transport quality is crucial to getting the max from your DAC (whatever it is). The Audio-gd CD7 vs the Vanguard CDM12 Pro (top loader) made that abundantly clear with my Reference 1 dac. I was/am shocked by the difference. My computer used as a transport ( Auzen Prelude COAX out/ bit perfect) isn't even close to the CD7 which was a big surprise. The CDM12 Pro was slightly better than the computer but Kingwa told me matter of factly the RE1 needed a better T. Am I glad I heeded his advice even though it cost me another fair chunk of change. Peete. PS Congrats Patu.....the wait is over |
I'm considering about going for my old sound card (ESI Juli@) or trying out EMU 1212m. Those two are both extremely good professional sound cards and both support ASIO 2.0. Of course you can pay fortunes for some Lynx sound card but I don't think it's necessary. 1212m is about same price as Juli@ here in Finland, though there's one Juli@ at the FS forum here.
Do you have any other recommendations? I will only use the sound card as transport for my DAC. I use and will always use computer as my source so CDP's are out of question.