From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 21:55:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA00898 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 21:55:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from tulpi.interconnect.com.au (tulpi.interconnect.com.au [192.189.54.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA00891 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 21:55:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ahill@localhost) by tulpi.interconnect.com.au id QAA26127 (8.7.6/IDA-1.6); Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:55:03 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:55:02 +1100 (EST) From: Anthony Hill To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: which sound card ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am looking at getting a new system which will be running FreeBSD as its primary OS, and I am wondering which sound card I should get. It should be noted that cost is a consideration, and nor am I a hacker. (I'm going to need this thing to pretty much "just work") I would be interested in using it for basic recording and playback. (a few .au and .wav files, and with the MBONE tools. (VAT, NV etc.) I seem to hear "bad things" about most of the popular cards. I am using the soundblaster16 at the moment. This has been pretty good (I only ever need to use 1/2 duplex for VAT). However last time I looked, it seemed as though the most recent versions of VAT had dropped SB-16 support. Anthony Hill ahill@connect.com.au