Benjamin Tegge wrote: > Hello Thomas, > > I don't know what site you are referring to, but from my experience > popular sites here in Europe/Germany do list mostly products from Asus > and Creative in the PC - Soundcards category but also have a separate > Audio - Interfaces category with many more products. On the site I'm looking at there are also separate categories for studio equipment and DACs. The studio equipment are mostly weird boxes for plugging in electric guitars and midi instruments. It didn't look like it had anything interesting. The DAC category is for audiophiles and it priced for them. The cheapest thing I could find with an analog input and optical input was a Xonar Essence STU for $393. Without optical the cheapest thing was a Pro-Ject Head Box S USB for $235. Way too expensive. All I want is a modern equivalent to a sound blaster live. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user