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Date:      Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:56:07 -0500
From:      Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>
To:        Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: quality soundcard
Message-ID:  <20050823205607.0f202411@vixen42.vulpes>
In-Reply-To: <20050823170611.GA52924@ns.stare.cz>
References:  <20050823170611.GA52924@ns.stare.cz>

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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:06:11 +0200
Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to build a semipro studio on 5.4/$card/ecasound.
> What what is "the best" soundcard supported by FreeBSD 5.4?
> Is there a supported card that can do 32bit (or at least 24bit)
> samples at 96kHz?
> 
> The sound(4) manpage says that
> 
> 	The driver works best with WSS/MSS cards, which have a very
> 	clean architecture and an orthogonal set of features.  They
> 	also happen to be among the cheapest audio cards on the
> market.
> 
> How do I find out whether a given card is a WSS/MSS card?
> Would you explicitly recommend one of these?

I would suggest looking into OSS drivers as well.



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