Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

[Rene H. <ren...@ke...>]

On 22-08-08 17:37, Grant wrote:

>>> I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to
>>> add 24-bit support.  Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is
>>> 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB?
>> For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice.
>> Note, I haven't any and you want to check specific support for (the exact
>> chip on) the one you'd get but as far as I'm aware, any current CMI chip
>> does 24-bit.
> 
> OK, a little more digging and that cmedia link must have had a typo.
> There is also a chipset called the CMI8788 contained by the "bluegears
> b-Enspirer" which is about $100.  I've read that CMI cards have good
> ALSA support.  Does this sound like a good one?

Sounds a bit expensive -- if I'm not mistaken those cards can be had 
locally from brands such as Trust and Club 3D but also a nicer brand 
such as TerraTec for around EUR50. It's a bit hard to make sure as 
online stores seem to not consider the audio-chipset marketable information.

Otherwise, yes, probably okay, but you want to cross-reference tbis with 
the driver author, placed in CC. I haven't a modern CMI card so wouldn't 
know about gotchas such as 24-bit for playback and not capture and stuff 
like that.

Rene.