Start with the Audician32. The UK seller "Evercase" http://stores.ebay.com/KM-T-A-Evercase?_rdc=1 ships fast.
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wrote:Start with the Audician32. The UK seller "Evercase" http://stores.ebay.com/KM-T-A-Evercase?_rdc=1 ships fast.
Thanks, purchased. Not that I'm dying to part ways with money, but seems very inexpensive. Any drawbacks? Any reason to get the wavetable add-on given that I have all the MIDI devices?
wrote:wrote:Start with the Audician32. The UK seller "Evercase" http://stores.ebay.com/KM-T-A-Evercase?_rdc=1 ships fast.
Thanks, purchased. Not that I'm dying to part ways with money, but seems very inexpensive. Any drawbacks? Any reason to get the wavetable add-on given that I have all the MIDI devices?
I don't know how the board, mentioned in the Audician manual sounds. Yet it can be used with a lot of other boards.
I have good experiences with the Audician32 card. And it is great with old games, such as SB-Pro games.
People have mentioned that OPL part is not 100% as good as a real OPL2 or OPL3 chip. Yet I really struggle to hear
the difference. It sounds punchy, clean and nice in Adlib mode. I think the next step, would be to dig up the scehmatics
and building plans for one of them many Adlib clone cards, that are floating around on Vogons.
Speaking of soundcards. Then I really like Creative cards. They work as intended all the time. Except when broken. 🤣
One card in my collection that are really standing out, is a Media Vision Jazz16. I love that card.
The Audician32 stands out too, as one of the great cards. If the price were double that, then I would not have recommended
it at all. They are worth exactly what sellers are asking for them right now.
But generally, I personally choose Creative as the go-to brand of choice. As they tend to be the ones that just work.
Personally I would not go the route of more than one card, yet other users here are praising multi card setup's.
So who knows. It might work for you, to have multiple soundcards in one machine.
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wrote:IMO you're all set 😀 You have all the good stuff already!
🤣 - I know, Phil. For the short cash, going to give it a shot and see if I can hear any difference. Very well may end up back with the AWE64.
Or you will go for AWE64-Gold + Audician32 + external MIDI devices. 😉
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wrote:One card in my collection that are really standing out, is a Media Vision Jazz16. I love that card.
I saw that one the other day and starting reading up a bit. Seems like a viable choice.
Best how?
Best support? best DAC? most options? Best price?
The Jazz16 should have a drawback, regarding the Wavetable Header. So I am using mine for SB-Pro and Adlib as the only standards.
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wrote:Best how?
Best support? best DAC? most options? Best price?
Most authentic sounding card, based on older DOS, non-MIDI games, the way the composers intended.
Support would def be secondary, but maybe not as relevant if I do go with 2 cards. Although, again, I only have 2 ISA slots and am picking up Keropi's MPU interface.
Price is not important at all, nor are options from the perspective that this card would only drive DOS and early Windows, non-MIDI supported games.
wrote:Most authentic sounding card, based on older DOS, non-MIDI games, the way the composers intended. Support would def be seconda […]
wrote:Best how?
Best support? best DAC? most options? Best price?
Most authentic sounding card, based on older DOS, non-MIDI games, the way the composers intended.
Support would def be secondary, but maybe not as relevant if I do go with 2 cards. Although, again, I only have 2 ISA slots and am picking up Keropi's MPU interface.
Price is not important at all, nor are options from the perspective that this card would only drive DOS and early Windows, non-MIDI supported games.
Does your SS7 board have an SB-Link connector? What board is it?
If you like the YMF718 card (Audician32), then you can replace it with a PCI YMF724, YMF744 or YMF754 with SB-Link connectors. This will release an ISA slot for something else.
If you just want the most authentic, just get a SB Pro 2.
wrote:Does your SS7 board have an SB-Link connector? What board is it?
If you like the YMF718 card (Audician32), then you can replace it with a PCI YMF724, YMF744 or YMF754 with SB-Link connectors. This will release an ISA slot for something else.
If you just want the most authentic, just get a SB Pro 2.
Interesting, no idea on the SB-Link, didn't know it existed. I'm nearly 100% certain the mboard is an ASUS P5A-B, v1.04. The version without the on-board sound chip. How would that work? Benefits?
I have the USB dongle for the mboard too and haven't been able to get it working in Win 98 SE. That's another topic though... 😀
EDIT: Is this an ideal revision of the Pro 2? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-Sound-Blaste … QIAAOSwA3dYF59y
I do play some stuff that would have native SB16 support. Are there no SB16s that would perform like the Pro 2?
Forget about the eternal quest for the "Best" ...something... card.
These is none. Usually the OPL3 is embedded on a card that has also other features, mostly AT LEAST PCM playback but there may be many other features.
There are many very subjective factors that make it IMPOSSIBLE to objectively declare one card as THE BEST. It may be just the OTHER card for another member of ours.
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@FGB - I know it's completely subjective. Maybe just the best fit for me, given my scenario.
wrote:wrote:Does your SS7 board have an SB-Link connector? What board is it?
If you like the YMF718 card (Audician32), then you can replace it with a PCI YMF724, YMF744 or YMF754 with SB-Link connectors. This will release an ISA slot for something else.
If you just want the most authentic, just get a SB Pro 2.
Interesting, no idea on the SB-Link, didn't know it existed. I'm nearly 100% certain the mboard is an ASUS P5A-B, v1.04. The version without the on-board sound chip. How would that work? Benefits?
Is it a board like this one? http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/mainbo … _p5a-b_1.04.jpg
Then it doesn't have SB-Link. At least I can't see one anywhere. Which is not surprising, I've never heard of an Ali chipset board supporting SB-Link.
The benefit of SB-Link, if both the motherboard and the sound card support it, is that it makes PCI sound cards 100% DOS compatible, without the need for TSRs etc.
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Yup, that's the one. Understood on the function of it. Thanks for the suggestion.
Still curious on the below point in case it got lost up there. Really appreciate all the help and suggestions. Thanks so much.
EDIT: Is this an ideal revision of the Pro 2? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-Sound-Blaste … QIAAOSwA3dYF59y
I do play some stuff that would have native SB16 support. Are there no SB16s that would perform like the Pro 2?
EDIT 2: Sorry, link above corrected.
