Short answer: Yamaha YMF719 (in my opinion)

Long answer: That depends on what you plan to do with it.

How many threads are there about this already?

We should also start some other topics, like 'The best ISA DOS sound card in Galaxy' and '... in Universe'.

There is no any answer to your question. Picking the sound card depends on the goals you want to achieve using it.

My vote goes to : "The Best ISA DOS sound card in the Milky Way" 😜

There is no such thing as "best" ISA DOS sound card. We all wish it were that simple 🙁.

Ok, we really are not joking. You might be getting close to answer if you name your favourite DOS games you're going to play using the soundcard. That would simplify the task.

Use all sound cards in one machine, name it: The sound.

Some one should photoshop an sound card like Bitching Fast 3D 🤣
And make it SLi with Voodoo 2 for 3D sound.

There is no "best" sound card. We had an exhaustive thread on this subject a long while back. There are simply too many competing standards that existed back then to have one card that does it all.

True. There are too many criteria to answer this questions.

If you give us some criteria we can help.

There are some questions that are just impossible to answer outright or so complicated that it isn't worth it.

Best thing to do is have more than one.

Maybe we change the question...

Which is good soundcard? Gravis UltraSound? Creative SoundBlaster? Yamaha YMF? Or something?

What if you factor in for not caring about the general midi interface without a plan for any daughterboard or external modules? I'm sure some are perfect choices.

leileilol wrote:

What if you factor in for not caring about the general midi interface without a plan for any daughterboard or external modules? I'm sure some are perfect choices.

Good idea leileilol for external MIDI, but I will using them for my HP Vectra VL600 🤣

For daughterboard I have think twice about hanging note bug, my Vibra 16S has DSP 4.13. Is this bug happen in my sound card?

I want to get old sound card which is fit with my retro rigs

For retro Pentium DOS Machine, AWE32 or AWE64?
For planned high-end 440BX machine, Vortex2 or SBLive?

Stojke wrote:

Use all sound cards in one machine, name it: The sound.

Some one should photoshop an sound card like Bitching Fast 3D 🤣
And make it SLi with Voodoo 2 for 3D sound.

i love that bitching fast card too 🤣

northernosprey02, If you asked "What is the purpose of our existence?" or "Why does everybody have to die?", you would have a better chance of getting a propper answer. 😁

RacoonRider wrote:

northernosprey02, If you asked "What is the purpose of our existence?" or "Why does everybody have to die?", you would have a better chance of getting a propper answer. 😁

🤣

RacoonRider wrote:

northernosprey02, If you asked "What is the purpose of our existence?" or "Why does everybody have to die?", you would have a better chance of getting a propper answer. 😁

I am confused 🤣

It's a question with no answer! There's been a ton of discussion around here about it and everyone has a different opinion, and like someone mentioned, there is no one ISA card that covers all requirements. It depends on what you want to do with it.

you may start here
http://www.crossfire-designs.de/index.php?lan … rds/&print=true

There have been plenty of heated debates on here, the Quest Studios forum, and elsewhere.

NOBODY agrees on a single "best" sound card, and to make matters worse, some games were obviously coded with certain sound cards in mind that will have missing features or effects on other cards. The only solution is to stuff multiple sound cards in one box.

I decided to settle on the Sound Blaster AWE32 CT2760. Not PnP (makes resource management less of a headache), usually has the ASP/CSP if you really care about getting QSound out of TFX, that iteration is guaranteed to have a real OPL3 core in the CT1747 chip, and it can hold 28 MB SoundFonts for some really nice "wavetable" MIDI, along with Eradicator's enhanced sound samples (meant to leverage the reverb and chorus effects of the EMU8000 as a sort of proto-EAX).

northernosprey02 wrote:

Maybe we change the question...

Which is good soundcard? Gravis UltraSound? Creative SoundBlaster? Yamaha YMF? Or something?

What you can do is look at people's signatures and see what they have.

Also are you after a general-purpose card or something specialised. A GUS for example is really quite specialised.

If you want something that "just works" a Sound Blaster 16 will do the job. But beyond that you really need to know more about the difference between the brands and models, otherwise you simply can't make a decision.

And you will likely end up with a compromise as has been said before, there is no card that does it all.