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Emanuele_Z
October 4th, 2010, 11:27 PM
Hello,

I'd like to buy a sound card for Ubuntu 10.04 x86-64 (or well supported on Linux anyway).
Range price from 10 to 60 GBP.
What would you buy?
I don't need nothing extremely serious, but my USB mic+phones is not working properly and integrated sound card has rubbish in (basically all noisy).

Please suggest! :)
Cheers,
Emanuele_Z
October 5th, 2010, 07:42 PM
No suggestions guys?

Cheers,
cchhrriiss121212
October 5th, 2010, 08:19 PM
Do you want a USB soundcard or PCI?
Emanuele_Z
October 5th, 2010, 08:22 PM
Do you want a USB soundcard or PCI?

Preferably internal, so PCI.

Cheers,
cchhrriiss121212
October 5th, 2010, 08:37 PM
The m-audio audiophile 24/96 is a great quality card for that price range. The only thing is that it has a bug with Pulse that requires an edit of pulse.conf to get it working.
Might be worth it if you ever listen to music on your PC, if it seems too serious then just have a browse on eBay, I just found this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-Channel-Sound-Midi-3D-PCI-Sound-Card-Game-Port-/190449246349?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_So undCards&hash=item2c57a8e08d
cascade9
October 5th, 2010, 08:39 PM
Asus Xonar DS (or D1, better but more expensive). DS cards start at about 30 quid on staticice, D1s at about 40 quid.

http://www.staticice.co.uk/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=Xonar+DS&spos=3
Emanuele_Z
October 5th, 2010, 09:20 PM
Asus Xonar DS (or D1, better but more expensive). DS cards start at about 30 quid on staticice, D1s at about 40 quid.

http://www.staticice.co.uk/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=Xonar+DS&spos=3

Do these work out of the box?
If yes, I might one click from Amazon...

Cheers,
cascade9
October 5th, 2010, 09:34 PM
As long as you have alsa 1.0.18/kernel 2.6.27 or higher (D1) or alsa 1.0.23/kernel 2.6.34 (DS) they should work out of the box ;)
Emanuele_Z
October 6th, 2010, 07:03 AM
Thanks!

Any other soundcards? (even if I think I might go for D1...)

Cheers,
cascade9
October 7th, 2010, 09:27 AM
Tons of other option would work...pretty much any creative card (bluegh!), m-audio, cmedia and half a dozen other less well know types of sou dn cards should work as well.
Emanuele_Z
October 7th, 2010, 10:43 PM
Tons of other option would work...pretty much any creative card (bluegh!), m-audio, cmedia and half a dozen other less well know types of sou dn cards should work as well.

Ordered D1 for 59 quid on Amazon.uk!

Cheers,
cascade9
October 8th, 2010, 09:27 AM
59?!?!?!!!!

Thats 50% more than some other places are selling them for.