External Sound Card

[billyo]

Originally Posted by RanMan

Appreciate your honesty. If anyone knows of a high quality external sound card, with RCA outputs, please let me know. Again, I don't need 5.1 or 7.1 dolby surround sound or a unit geared towards headphone or PC computer speakers. I'm playing on a bass thumping 10,000 watt mobile pa system and just want the best sound possible.

in my opinion you be better off just using your internal sound card, i had an external soundcard a soundblaster extagy nothing but problems..humming and buzzing..i even bought a hum/hizz eleminator it helped a bit..don't used it anymore..i now just used the headphone out to my mixing board..1/8 to rca cable..no humming and buzzing..

[bryant]

Well, if you are one of these high-powered DJ's who need 10.000 watts and a clear strong sound, there is a USB sound card called a maya-44 and a ubdj46. Might be a lil off on the exact names. But they are for the pro's and cost about 200 bucks. You will like 'em.

[lmcmains]

I think it's all in the speakers and the mixer. I have 2 systems. One has a 2,000 watt and one is a 300 watt amp. I can't tell much of a sound differance between the two. I am running the same kind of speakers and mixer on both systems.

[a2kmike]

You may want to give these some consideration. I use the amigo and the micro, improves the sound output of laptop or desktop and not expensive.

Check out the produts at this site:

http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/Soundcards.asp

Mike

[billyo]

Originally Posted by lmcmains

I think it's all in the speakers and the mixer. I have 2 systems. One has a 2,000 watt and one is a 300 watt amp. I can't tell much of a sound differance between the two. I am running the same kind of speakers and mixer on both systems.

i'm not sure if that was the problem..i have 3 mackie mixing boards cfx 12 dfx 12 and dfx 6 and a mackie powered speakers and i used to use my external soundcard (a soundlblaster extagy )..on all of them still had the same problem, humming and hizzing..when i unhooked the ext. soundcard and used the headphone out directly to my board the hizzing and humming disappeared..

[Eric Whitehouse]

http://www.thomann.de/gb/esi_u46_dj.htm

I must admit for around £65 you can't beat the ESI46DJ. Simple to use and even easier to install. I've used one for around 18 months now and the quality of sound is a great improvement to my Dell internal card.