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Member of the Trade: Sercona Audio
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I've used dogbert's drivers for a few years now (it seems) and they might be the best and easiest to get bit-perfect from I've ever had!
I bought a bunch of the zoltrix cmedia cards and opto/coax dongles that went along with them and they're still the card of choice imho.
usb audio is kind of taking over, so pci is less and less relevant, but for the next 5 yrs or so (until pci finally goes away, whenever that is) pci still is useful and some pci cards are VERY cheap in price.
if you are looking for an 8738 card, be SURE it has digital out. a lot of them are 'sx' based and have analog ONLY as the output (which does 'us' no good)
with the 8738 you can also output 'raw' ac3 and dts just fine, for some AVC to do its DACing for you
I bought a bunch of the zoltrix cmedia cards and opto/coax dongles that went along with them and they're still the card of choice imho.
usb audio is kind of taking over, so pci is less and less relevant, but for the next 5 yrs or so (until pci finally goes away, whenever that is) pci still is useful and some pci cards are VERY cheap in price.
if you are looking for an 8738 card, be SURE it has digital out. a lot of them are 'sx' based and have analog ONLY as the output (which does 'us' no good)
with the 8738 you can also output 'raw' ac3 and dts just fine, for some AVC to do its DACing for you