[ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   Yeah, watch out for Behringer. I've had a couple of pieces by them
over the years, most recently a smallish headphone amp. It seems that
on all of the things I've purchased I eventually end up with bad
connections where you plug things in and out, as well as noisy spots
in controls.

   I personally love what Behringer does for certain price points but
personally I would *never* put any of their units in my main
monitoring path.

Just my 2 cents,
Mark

On 1/25/07, Allan Klinbail <sonofzev at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Not sure of the quality but Behringer has a fairly cheap ADAT 8 channel
> D/A,  A/D converter.. I find that most of the Behringer gear can be
> suspect on audio quality for some devices but some things they do
> well.... I ditched my behringer mixer for a soundcraft and will never go
> back to Behringer for a mixer but still have the 4 channel compressor
> (also have 2 DBX's) and both the BCF and BDJ(win only). Can't fault
> either the BCF or BDJ and the compressor is good where only light
> compression is used possibly due to lack of attack and decay
> control.
>
> On the other hand I upgraded from an M-Audio Delta 66 to a Delta 1010,
> and both work rock solid... the 1010 has it's converters external to the
> PC and they are very very sweet...
>
> so if you're choice is cost dependant then you need to way up what you
> can get. If it's purely quality based, getting an RME with a high
> quality ADAT A/D D/A converter is probably your way to go.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> cheers
>
> Allan
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 04:39 +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> > I just realised that the RME 9652 has a serious drawback - no analog
> > outputs..!  I found out that there's an interface unit available but it
> > costs around 800 UK pounds for just 8 channels!!  Something's veering
> > me back towards M-Audio!
> >
> > Thanks for all the advice,
> >
> > John
>
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