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I just got an E-MU 0202 used on ebay, cheap, well under $100:
http://www.prodj.com.ua/img/img2b/20...0514134836.jpg
Gets you headphone out (for speaker T&S and impedance measurements), phantom powered mic in,
192K sampling, and is portable.
Measures very well:
http://www.libinst.com/EMU%200202%20USB.htm
Quote from Bill's testing:
http://www.libinst.com/emu0202%20at%...o%20Audpod.PNG
"This one is looping from the EMU output to its input with just cables (no AudPod in the loop). The EMU 0202 is considerably quieter than the AudPod! Also, the distortion measured without the AudPod was quite a bit lower (I even saw it down to 0.0003% THD at midband, which is insanely low). This is the first card in which I've seen a substantial improvement when going from 16bits to 24bits. When using this in PRAXIS measurements, the AudPod device becomes the limiting factor for both noise and distortion. That doesn't happen often. I'd bet this would be a great recording card."
There have been some driver issues reported but most say that the Win 7 driver works.
Still have to set it up and try it.
Anyone tried one of these with win7 64 bit?
I've also wondered if the E-MU 0404 is as good as the 0202, it has the advantage of two mic inputs
which makes it good also, for stereo recording:
http://www.creative.com/emu/products...aspx?pid=15185
Looked into the 0404 and found that it uses a "better" DAC Chip the AKM AK4396 but the 0202 measures
so well that I don't need the 0404 and given that noise and distortion depend so much on implementation
the 0404 might measure worse. I might try the 0404 for recording someday but for now the 0202 should
be fine.
http://www.prodj.com.ua/img/img2b/20...0514134836.jpg
Gets you headphone out (for speaker T&S and impedance measurements), phantom powered mic in,
192K sampling, and is portable.
Measures very well:
http://www.libinst.com/EMU%200202%20USB.htm
Quote from Bill's testing:
http://www.libinst.com/emu0202%20at%...o%20Audpod.PNG
"This one is looping from the EMU output to its input with just cables (no AudPod in the loop). The EMU 0202 is considerably quieter than the AudPod! Also, the distortion measured without the AudPod was quite a bit lower (I even saw it down to 0.0003% THD at midband, which is insanely low). This is the first card in which I've seen a substantial improvement when going from 16bits to 24bits. When using this in PRAXIS measurements, the AudPod device becomes the limiting factor for both noise and distortion. That doesn't happen often. I'd bet this would be a great recording card."
There have been some driver issues reported but most say that the Win 7 driver works.
Still have to set it up and try it.
Anyone tried one of these with win7 64 bit?
I've also wondered if the E-MU 0404 is as good as the 0202, it has the advantage of two mic inputs
which makes it good also, for stereo recording:
http://www.creative.com/emu/products...aspx?pid=15185
Looked into the 0404 and found that it uses a "better" DAC Chip the AKM AK4396 but the 0202 measures
so well that I don't need the 0404 and given that noise and distortion depend so much on implementation
the 0404 might measure worse. I might try the 0404 for recording someday but for now the 0202 should
be fine.
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