Simviation Forum - Sound card ?

Jun 4^th, 2009 at 6:07am

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Hi.

Well, I have almost finalized my new system except for a sound card and this is where my next question presents itself.

What would be a good sounds card?

In the past I have used just headphones but now I have a dedicated room especially built to house my cockpit. I have it wired up for 7.1 sound.

Again, I would like to say thanks in advance to all.

Larry

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Reply #1 - Jun 4^th, 2009 at 6:28am

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I have always used the Sound Cards, Speakers, anything Audio, etc, from Creative Labs in all my various Computer installations since the early 1990's.....>>>>

http://uk.europe.creative.com/products/welcomenew.asp?category=1&#subcat873

Always excellent quality, and experts in Sound applications.

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004....and a PCI Creative Labs Soundblaster 1024 Live! Soundcard with Creative Labs Surround Sound Speaker System... Wink

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..and alternative, which I occasionally use...>>>>

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.family&ID=PCIinterfaces

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Reply #2 - Jun 4^th, 2009 at 12:48pm

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Do you have a particular price limit in mind and do you mind where you buy it from?

To be honest I don't really think you will need an overly expensive sound card. That is mostly for people working with high quality sounds such as music editors and the such. Get something reasonable, but you shouldn't need to fork out a lot.

Paul posted some good ones, but basically anything aught to do. I wouldn't really spend more than £50 or $70 or so. I just don't think you will really need to. If you are planning to use the system for high quality music input and ouput (and lets face it, Flight Simulator doesn't have this level of quality) you can get away with pretty much anything.

Spend more in good speakers than the soundcard because all of them will do pretty much the same job. Go for something reasonably priced, from a decent brand and don't try to convince yourself that the biggest and best looking thing is what you want. This is just flight simulator.

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Reply #3 - Jun 4^th, 2009 at 1:31pm

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the only reason a sound card is needed is if you require hardware sound encoding for AV production work

Modern motherboard 5.1/7.1 systems DO NOT impede performance like the onboard sound chips did a few years back

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Reply #4 - Jun 4^th, 2009 at 1:55pm

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My PCI Sound Card also has a Chip containing all the 128 General MIDI sounds and effects, and also serves the application for connecting MIDI musical instruments, MIDI In/Out, via its Game Port Socket.

So mine is useful for special applications.

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Reply #5 - Jun 5^th, 2009 at 7:01am

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NickN wrote on Jun 4^th, 2009 at 1:31pm:

the only reason a sound card is needed is if you require hardware sound encoding for AV production work

Modern motherboard 5.1/7.1 systems DO NOT impede performance like the onboard sound chips did a few years back

Yeah.. it's all digital anyway. Take the money you'd spend on the card, and put it toward even better hardware (audio amp/seperator and speakers).

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Reply #6 - Jun 5^th, 2009 at 8:04am

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Brett_Henderson wrote on Jun 5^th, 2009 at 7:01am:

NickN wrote on Jun 4^th, 2009 at 1:31pm:

the only reason a sound card is needed is if you require hardware sound encoding for AV production work

Modern motherboard 5.1/7.1 systems DO NOT impede performance like the onboard sound chips did a few years back

Yeah.. it's all digital anyway. Take the money you'd spend on the card, and put it toward even better hardware (audio amp/seperator and speakers).

Ditto... good speakers are a wise investment.

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