Thanks for all replies so far! I'm reading information re all suggestions. Many seem very nice. I will use it with a laptop and I guess there's no need therefore to get a card with fancy features such as xlr or direct monitoring of the inputs. I basically want to be able to use a combination of a good headset and good soundcard capable of achieving the quality needed for speech recognition. I never tried a microphone that requires phantom power/xlr and am unsure if there's any worthwhile improvement. I guess for my purpose USB 1 suffices. A small size would be a nice bonus and the same goes for good quality outputs to connect the card to a stereo. By the way I'm in Europe (mostly nl), so models that are sold and relatively easy to get over here have a strong preference. Thanks again, Bolawy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
