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Dear inmates,
I am looking for the ultimate sound card.
Until now I have been using a LynxTWO which offers good performance, but now I am looking for something better, which can compete with home-audio CD players in the $5,000 range or preferrably better.
Here is the way I use it:
1. CD files are ripped to the hard drive of my PC.
2. They are then processed using some upsampling and filtering software which I am developing. Testing the software is one of the reasons I need a very good sound card, as improvements to upsamplig software are sometimes subtle and difficult to hear if you don't have excellent equipment.
3. The result is played through the analog outputs of the sound card, into a home-audio system with amplifiers and speakers costing over $65,000. Obviously, right now the LynxTWO is by far the weakest link in the chain, although it is in no way a bad sound card.
I would prefer a solution which includes both a card in the PC and the actual audio circuitry in an outboard box, since I believe that the PC environment has too much electromagnetic noise for the level of performance that I intend to achieve.
Since I sometimes use the setup to test digital crossovers which I develop, I would rather have a card that has a 6-channel output and not just 2 channels, since a software emulation of the digital crossover would be much cheaper to test than a hardware prototype...
Thanks,
Yoav Gonczarowski
YG Acoustics Ltd.

Yoav Gonczarowski
YG Acoustics

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Topic - Searching for a product - Yoav 23:14:21 10/29/04 (2)

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