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First PCI-X Soundcard I've Seen: AudioTrak Prodigy 7.1LT
Submitted by BruceCyr on Thu, 07/28/2005 - 18:33.
http://www.audiotrak.net/prodigy7.1LT.htm
Price is $84, but its not worth that to me. While it works as well as any other soundcard I've used for SR, you would buy it for its other capabilities, and that's where it has failings -- specifically, the driver is buggy and the manufacturer (as of Sept. 1) wasn't providing direct support. With two sound editors, DiamondCut and Audacity, it has problems that cripple its utility -- at least under W2K SP4+. (I have tried another soundcard whose functionality in W2K seems poorer than in WXP.)
Subjectively its output sounds OK but not quite as good as the M-Audio mentioned below, at least for 2.1 output.
Quite a bit of puff about its audio qualities. On the practical side it comes with an optional low-profile bracket. Also has DirectWIRE for recording directly from Internet broadcasts. Built around ViA's ICE1722/1724 controller chip with 24bit architecture. Have no idea how it performs, but other cards based on the same chip work very well, like the M-Audio Revolution 7, which gave me the highest Audio Wizard score I've ever seen (as if that's significant:-).
N.b.: DirectWIRE is a useful audio tool for routing any sound that plays on your PC to any other application, but you can get similar results with TotalRecorder, which works with virtually any hardware/software.
Bruce
