Anonymous Coward wrote on 2020-07-09, 04:54:
AudioTrix 3D.
Good luck finding one, especially for a fair price.
I've been looking for a while.
I am actually lucky enough to own one of those. It is not as quiet as I would have hoped, noise wise (with line out connected to an Akai DPS12 and listening on the DPS12's headphone port) . It's subjectively similar to my AWE64 Value's line out . Maybe I am expecting too much, or maybe the DPS12 is the issue (it is 22 hears old and I don't know how good the caps are in that thing, though visually they were fine at last check). The Audiotrix uses tantalum caps, so those are probably fine (so far!).
The retro PC, monitor and DPS12 are on the same circuit, along with all my MIDI modules, so not a ground issue . The only connection to the "outside" is through an optical out on the DPS12 to my AVR .
EDIT: My SC-88VL is whisper quiet in terms of noise, but both my AWE64 Value and Audiotrix 3D/XG (using line-out on both, all inputs muted) have noticeable background noise when I pump the Akai DPS12 headphone volume to high levels . At this point, my guess is that the internal sound cards are picking up internal PC noise .
I have maxed volume levels on the sound cards and have set gain on the DPS12 mixer console in a way that levels match as much as possible between devices.