gabedamien
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Hello,
Did a search but didn't find anything specific. Short version: I need a USB audio device to replace internal sound card and serve both analog and digital audio to several components.
I'm building an mATX hackintosh soon. The downside to mATX hackintoshes is that there's no one motherboard with quite the OS X compatibility of certain ATX mobos; specifically, I'll be going with a Gigabyte Z77-MX Thunderbolt board that has native sleep/wake with no DSDT, but fails in one very important respect: audio. Its VIA chipset has a kext available to get it to sort-of work, but reviews are pretty harsh on that front.
The good news is that I actually don't care that much if onboard audio won't work well, because I pretty much always intended to upgrade to better (external) audio anyway! That's where you guys come in. Internal sound cards are iffy on hackintoshes, but USB audio works perfectly by its nature (provided there are OS X drivers!). The problem is I don't know the landscape of available options at all.
I need USB in, Toslink (5.1) out, and analog stereo(at least two) out. An onboard headphone amp would be good. Must have OS X drivers, of course.
Price ideally around $150, but can save to about $250 if necessary.
Suggestions?
Did a search but didn't find anything specific. Short version: I need a USB audio device to replace internal sound card and serve both analog and digital audio to several components.
Context
I'm building an mATX hackintosh soon. The downside to mATX hackintoshes is that there's no one motherboard with quite the OS X compatibility of certain ATX mobos; specifically, I'll be going with a Gigabyte Z77-MX Thunderbolt board that has native sleep/wake with no DSDT, but fails in one very important respect: audio. Its VIA chipset has a kext available to get it to sort-of work, but reviews are pretty harsh on that front.
The good news is that I actually don't care that much if onboard audio won't work well, because I pretty much always intended to upgrade to better (external) audio anyway! That's where you guys come in. Internal sound cards are iffy on hackintoshes, but USB audio works perfectly by its nature (provided there are OS X drivers!). The problem is I don't know the landscape of available options at all.
Requirements
I need USB in, Toslink (5.1) out, and analog stereo
Price ideally around $150, but can save to about $250 if necessary.
Suggestions?