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[djrea]

i have problems with latency......
i have read a good low latency soundcard is audiophile 2496
is there any better soundcardo or is it the best?
whic is the difference between audiophile 2496 and audiophile usb?

[Stewbone]

A friend of mine is using the Echo Layla with Cakewalk. Another guy I know uses the Layla with Cool Edit Pro 2.0. I hear of no trouble concerning latency, meaning it's low.

Have you gone to manufacturers web-sites and kicked around? Check out their .pdf's for specs. Know any recording engineers? Check the beginnings of some of the forums for "Sticky"'s or FAQ's....

[Matthew Skinner]

The www.esi-pro.com Juli@ card is much higher end than the audiophile card. Better driver support and sound qaulity and more features.

The audiophile was designed a very long time ago and its not hard to design a better card with the adviances in converters and other IC.

The Julia is cheaper in some countries as well.

[brzilian]

Originally posted by Stewbone
A friend of mine is using the Echo Layla with Cakewalk. Another guy I know uses the Layla with Cool Edit Pro 2.0. I hear of no trouble concerning latency, meaning it's low.

Have you gone to manufacturers web-sites and kicked around? Check out their .pdf's for specs. Know any recording engineers? Check the beginnings of some of the forums for "Sticky"'s or FAQ's....

You can't compare the Layla to the Audiophile - they aren't the same thing. One is $150, the other is $600.

Echo's version of the Audiophile is the MiaMIDI which differs in the fact that it has balanced 1/4" connections rather than RCA which the Audiophile uses

[Sui]

To answer the second questions; The difference between the UAB Audiophile and the Audiophile 2496 is that one is an external sound card and the other is a PCI card that sits in you tower.

In the terms of I/O you get the same amount of channels 2 anlaog in and 2 analog out (selectable between 1/4 inch or RCA), S/PDIF in/out and 1 MIDI in/out. The Audiophinle has all RCA jacks and no headphone out.

The USB Audiophile has the added benifit of a headphone jack (a HOT headphone out) and it can be used with laptops as well as towers. 2496 only fits into the a tower PCI slot.

They both have low latency, although USB is going to be a little longer than PCI and the PCI card has a monitor mixer feature that allow you to have near-zero latency. The Audiophile USB does not have direct monitioring.

there you go.

Sui

[Thrust123]

Originally posted by Matthew Skinner
The www.esi-pro.com Juli@ card is much higher end than the audiophile card. Better driver support and sound qaulity and more features.

The audiophile was designed a very long time ago and its not hard to design a better card with the adviances in converters and other IC.

The Julia is cheaper in some countries as well.


Hi, I have your posts on this card several times. I am trying to narrow my decision to either Terratec Dmx6 Fire 24/96 (euros 159) or ESI Juli@ (Euros 149).

Don't know much about the Juli@ except your psots, and also the competence your web page displays on sound and recording in general.

In most forums that I've looked people always recommend the M-Audio 2496 audiophile, but I don't like the looks of that card as it doesn't seem to have normal jack connector but rather coaxial connectors.

The DMX-6 seems to have lot's of bells and whistles.

I am strating to do more serious recording now, even though I'm still on a tight budget. But with my old Soundblaster PCI 128 I am having problems with the midi keeping in sync with the audio, as you can appreciate in my songs. So now it0s time to get a more adequate card.

Any comments between those two choices, or any other choice in that price range???

Sorry, forgot to mention, my system: AMD athlon with ASUS a7n8x-x motherboard and 1800 mhz chip. Use Cakewalk Music Creator for my Audio and midi recordings. Windows 200 O/S.