What does this sound card do?

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lucaluca
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
My brother just received a used 867 MHz Quicksilver PowerMac today, and it came with this weird sound card:



http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_It...em=MIDUS41500C



What does it do exactly? Is there any use for it for a home user, or should he just sell it and make a few bucks?

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    It's a much, much, much better sound card than the buil-in sound. Hook up a decent set of speakers or headphones to it and you'll notice the difference immediately. It also has digital and MIDI I/O. Keep it.
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    ionyzionyz Posts: 491member
    The Audiophile is the best all-around sound card available for Mac. It offers better quality sound output and a method to actually RECORD sound. Ya know, like when you buy a $3000 Power Mac with no Line-in?! Oh, sorry... just a personal rant.



    Keep the card if you care at all about audio, or plan on recording.
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  • Reply 3 of 8
    ti fighterti fighter Posts: 863member
    yup its a good inexpensive professional audio card, you brother got lucky M-audio's a good company and very mac friendly, I got a Delta 66 and it's the cats meow.
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  • Reply 4 of 8
    concentricityconcentricity Posts: 434member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Luca Rescigno

    My brother just received a used 867 MHz Quicksilver PowerMac today, and it came with this weird sound card:



    http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_It...em=MIDUS41500C



    What does it do exactly? Is there any use for it for a home user, or should he just sell it and make a few bucks?



    i'm just curious...i don't mean this to sound mean, but if you provided the link, how can you not know what the card is/does? this is from the page you linked to...



    "The Audiophile 2496 is an all-in-one high fidelity soundcard solution for a wide variety of applications, ranging from multitrack recording to computer-based home theatre. Analog I/O is available on RCA jacks, utilizing the same professional 24-bit, 96kHz conversion as the Delta 44 and Delta 66 cards. S/PDIF I/O and MIDI I/O provide connectivity to both digital devices, and the world of MIDI. You can also utilize the S/PDIF I/O for DVD surround sound playback with an external decoder. The Audiophile 2496 includes a powerful digital mixer/router, and control over SCMS (Serial Copy Management System). Delta Series cards support all computer platforms and major software programs.



    Applications Include:



    24-bit 96 kHz multitrack recording

    MIDI recording and playback

    Digital transfers; Digital mastering

    LP/cassette-to-CD transfers

    Computer-based Home Theater systems

    Computer-based Hi-Fi systems "



    I guess it just seems like a waste of a post (and thread) to ask a question that you provide the answer to in your own post.
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  • Reply 5 of 8
    ti fighterti fighter Posts: 863member
    oh don't be so strict he's just starting a conversation about the card. I mean you just wasted a post on reposting the info from the link in his post, and then in turn made me waste a post posting about your post that said his post and thread were a waste
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  • Reply 6 of 8
    ionyzionyz Posts: 491member
    Then waste a post because I agree with Ti Fighters post about your post reposting stats then whining about the original post. Phew!
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  • Reply 7 of 8
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    Well, I emailed my brother that it was just some sort of audio output card, and he should try connecting his speakers to it. But he doesn't have any recording equipment outside of a PlainTalk microphone so it won't really be useful for that. I guess if he notices a major improvement in the sound from his speakers, he'll keep it, otherwise he'll probably sell it.



    As far as how I could possibly not know what it does... well look at this page here: http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia/256mb.cfm



    Look, it's a 256 MB graphics card that costs almost twice as much as a Radeon 9800. Why would I want that? I don't know what all that techno-speak means. Same applies to the audio card. I'm not well-versed in audiophile-speak so I don't really know what it does at all, outside of providing some weird inputs and outputs I've never seen before and costing lots of money. What if my brother were to sell this card and use the money to buy one of those 7.1 sound cards? At least then he'd be able to connect a lot of speakers: he'd get a concrete benefit that he just doesn't see with this high-end but almost useless m-audio thingie.
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  • Reply 8 of 8
    ti fighterti fighter Posts: 863member
    fyi on the audiophile:



    "You can also utilize the S/PDIF I/O for DVD surround sound playback with an external decoder'
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