sound card recommendations

[Ian Malone]

Vassilios Kotoulas wrote:

> Ian Malone wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for some suggestions for a new sound card and,
>> as sensible reviews are quite hard to find and one of the
>> requirements is that it works with FC(3), I thought I'd
>> try here.
>> 
>> I'm looking for something with a digital input (so I can plug
>> in my shiny new DAB radio), and without my on-board
>> VIA82C686's excellent police band reception (useful for
>> starting a crime empire, but I suspect it might only be
>> getting taxis).
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Consider an external USB device. They sound better than many internal
> cards because inside a computer there ist a lot of EM radiation which
> influences the sound quality. I bought a yamaha uw10 sound device for
> 70 Euro and it worked real plug and play and sounds excellent. It has
> analogue chinch and optical digital in and out and nothing more.
> 

Thanks, I'd meant to ask about USB audio but forgot.  Does anyone
know if they take up any more system resources than a PCI card?

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imalone