david.reed21 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I have been doing some research, but I thought that I would at least pose the qustion here, what is the best sound card for playing non-compressed sound files (.wav)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael hurd Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 The $ 30 Behringer UCA-202 works well, and it works with Vista, it's plug and play, no fuss, no hassle. RCA in / out as well as optical output to other devices. USB 2.0 to your computer. Low measured distortion as well as good frequency response. There aren't many suitable ones that work with Vista, any other operating system, there are a bunch of options. I am guessing you don't need DD 5.1, DTS output? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combat_SAMBO_Guy Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I kind of like my Soundblaster Extreme audio, I run it under both Vista Ultimate 64 Bit and Ubuntu 9.04, it has the optical out to drive my receiver, and hey, it is probably the most standard of all souncard chips and works well under both Vista 64 and Ubuntu 64 Bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.reed21 Posted September 19, 2009 Author Share Posted September 19, 2009 Thanks everyone for the help.[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 There are many levels of sound card value... The least expensive I would consider for music is the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI and as an all around card the X-Fi Music/Gamer(great low cost cards). Next up we move in quality...and price MOTU 828mk3(really like mine) and here we are in the purist ubber class... RME Fireface 400(love mine,Made in Germany...top quality all around,the BWM M6 of sound cards) lastly we have APOGEE's multi unit combos...more expensive tham nost speaker setups members of these forums own so...[:#] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuBXeRo Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 i have found the turtle beach sound cards to be pretty good. I dont use soundcards anymore as most of the time, onboard audio is more than enough. In the end, just most drivers to worry about and upgrade but if i had to buy a soundcard, itd be turtle beach. There are so many different cards that you can choose from, i wish i really understood all of the differences between cards and the different chips but i just havent wanted to put forth the effort to learn it. what is your application? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo33 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 RME Hammerfall DSP Multiface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Last Christmas I was visiting my sister and I brought up the conversation that you can easily go out and spend $400 on a video card but the pickings were slim when it came to audio. My brother-in-law perked up his eye and said he has an extra sound card he wasn't using and wanted to know if I would like to have it. Best Chirstmas I'd had in years! It's one of these and it works great!! Clicky... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 Anyone use a Behringer ufo202 with windows 7, also is it me or can you now rip music in a lossless format with windows 7. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groomlakearea51 Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Been ripping WAV (my preference...) into WMP/ Win7 for a month or so. No problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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