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brucek wrote:
 A soundcard (internal or external) which supports full duplex operation (simultaneous replay and recording) with line inputs and outputs. Inexpensive soundcards are typically adequate, a reference measurement is used to remove the soundcard's frequency response from the measurement. Examples of USB soundcards which have been found to work well are the Soundblaster MP3+, Soundblaster Live! 24-bit USB External and the M-Audio MobilePre-USB. Note that microphone inputs are NOT suitable and should not be used.
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Sorry if this is slightly off topic.
I have bought so many of these different cards for getting audio in and out (both analog and digital). The SoundBlaster ones were just horrible. For this application they might be ok. But ASIO support was joke. Getting Digital in and out without resampling was impossible on the soundblaster (Could not get encoded digital in and out without corruption). Both M-Audio and Soundblaster drivers were extremely buggy, including blue screens (which you rarely see these days). Not to mention the junk software that gets installed.
Both the EMU 044 and TASCAM 144 are excellent !! Vista support on both. XLR Phatom powered Mic inputs and LineLevel inputs (You can hook RS SPL or ECM 8000 directly). I can't stress this enough. The local guitar center dropped all low end M-Audio and SoundBlaster because of too many problems. I'm not saying you can't get the others to work and things can change in a year. But these other products are so much more stable and better quality for around the same price. The EMU can run as a standalone 24/192 ADC and DAC or as standalone analog preamp. TASCAM can act as standalone Preamp too. I have not tried TASCAM as a standalone DAC/ADC yet.