HendrixFan

I havent emailed them, no. I guess the worst they can say is "sorry", and at best they would give me some unsupported beta drivers. Thanks for your help.

I now have the Audiophile 2496 card, and it sounds much nicer than the SBLive! I had. However, in Win2K, the drivers only allow 16 bit input and output. I am unable to do any audio transfers until I get the 24 bit support. Since the card runs off of generic WDM drivers in Win2k, could I just patch in a generic 24 bit sound driver? Does anyone have any way of helping me?

Do you have any links for info on that card? I guess I can put it off until September, but Id like to know for sure that it wont be any later than that.

Ive seen people offer advice on which soundcard is best with the ProMedias. Some say the SBLive!, the Hercules XP, the Philips AE, or the Audiophile 2496. Im leaning towards getting the Audiophile 2496 for now, and upgrading to either the SBLive! 5.1 or the Philips AE. You see, right now I am looking to transfer vinyl over to 24bit 96Khz files, and I cant find any consumer grade soundcards that support 24bit recording. So it would seem the Audiophile 2496 will be neccessary to do those transfers. Somewhere down the line, I was wanting to buy the 4.1's to go along with my 2.1's to do the 6.2 setup. I was planning on using a soundcard with 5.1 ANALOG output for that, which is why I was looking to upgrade to the other cards mentioned. My question then, is do any of you know of a soundcard that offers 5.1 analog output AND 24 bit recording, either currently out, or on the horizon? If not, does anyone have advice on what I should do about my situation?