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From: Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz>
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Hello,

I am trying to build a semipro studio on 5.4/$card/ecasound.
What what is "the best" soundcard supported by FreeBSD 5.4?
Is there a supported card that can do 32bit (or at least 24bit)
samples at 96kHz?

The sound(4) manpage says that

	The driver works best with WSS/MSS cards, which have a very
	clean architecture and an orthogonal set of features.  They
	also happen to be among the cheapest audio cards on the market.

How do I find out whether a given card is a WSS/MSS card?
Would you explicitly recommend one of these?


	Thanks

		Jan