On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 03:25:04PM +0800, Alexander MacLennan wrote: > You can find this chipset in quite a few cheap sound ( not audio cards ) > I use one for music playback in a shop, I wouldn't use it for anything > more than that. Its on par with a soundblaster / onboard motherboard > sound solution the Cmi8738 is a very good quality cost effective way of doing non-resampling 16/24bit digital i/o. that is not true of Creative cards. even the analogue output on some of the better implementations (eg Maudio) is not substantially worse than something like an RME Pad which in many ways provides the same functionality for about 3 times the price. -- Tim Orford