What is the best Professional Sound Card?

What do you need it for?

Again, like the previous answer said, what you want depends on what you need it for, (duh). The four main areas, (in my opinion), are usually price (not an issue here, apparently), sound quality, connectivity and expandability... To give you some idea of whats available, and what they have to offer, (though quality is usually hard to gauge without listening for yourself - I'll be spending all day tomorrow listening to a lot of gear in my friends hi-fi store to see what I want), take a look at this:

http://www.cdrecordingsoftware.com/card_compare.html

'Stupidity is an often fatal disease' - R. A. Heinlein

The Yamaha SW1000XG is a great card, being based of the MU100 sound module. The downside is that it's only a MIDI-based card. It does not have an audio input. To really get the full potential of this card, it should be paired up with the DSP Factory audio card. What's really nice is it can link directly to the DSP Factory using an special internal cable, which it comes with.

Jarrett

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