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Considering that I intend to start testing ATI AIW cards (seriously two models - AIW Radeon 900 AGP and AIW X800 XL PCIe), the question about sound cards (this, in my opinion, is an area in which I consider myself an expert, but regarding professional cards).
I have read here that it is recommended to use Turtle Beach Santa Cruz with AIW. Not a bad card, but why this one? is there any explanation for this?
In this regard, a small lyrical digression. The first good-sounding consumer sound card (in 90s) was Sound Blaster Gold (ISA). It was the first PC sound card that did not sound like "two monkeys having sex on a metal roof". No Creative cards before and after sound even acceptable.
I replaced it quite quickly with the prosumer Turtle Beach Pinnacle (also ISA). It was a very good card, just one bug - when starting to record audio in Cooledit Pro, after starting the recording, you had to wait about 5 seconds before feed in signal, otherwise the right and left channels were swapped.
When Digital Audio Labs CardDeluxe just appeared, I switched to it, then to separate ADC UA 2192 and Lynx AES16e but it is another story (and I am sure I do not need them for VHS).
The question is - what is there in Santa Cruz that professional sound cards with excellent internal clock, such as the same DAL CardDeluxe or Lynx One, cannot provide?
I will, of course, test them, but the question is in advance.
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