Thread: Choosing a sound card

Need a good sound card with microphone input and to support DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1/EX, EAX, etc. Need a good sound recording.

What would you advise?

We would be advised to understand that you want to do on a computer - to record sound or play a movie to watch. If both, there were two possible options - you buy two cards (or a play and watch movies on the built-in charge), or buying one.

Microphone input is not good or bad, it can be of different types (for dynamic or condenser microphone with phantom power support) and with different types of connectors. And recording again, there is no "good" or "bad", it is characterized by the number of channels, types of sound sources, recording format etc.

In answering the question how suitable sound cards MIDI Man Audio Revolution 5.1 and MIDI Man Audio Revolution 7.1 for recording guitar and voice from a microphone, one person offered me a map of ESI <MAYA44> (RTL) (4xIn / 4xOut, SPDIF Optical Out, Coaxial Out , 24Bit/96kHz, PCI). Question: I understand that Dual card for market DTMP for recording? How she comes to play music, games, videos and the like and how it will differ from the maps specially designed for multimedia?