I was looking for a way to save money but still have a high end portable recording rig AND a good home system for the mixdown. I though it would be great if I could find an outboard unit to do the work that I could interface with from either a PCMCIA card or a PCI card. I found it at RME Audio.
They've got a great implementation of their product using a rackmountable audio interface and either PCI or PCMCIA cards to hook it up to a computer. A card and interface together are only marginally more than getting their all-in-one card, and then to buy a second card to use with the same interface is a lot cheaper.
This also takes care of another pet pieve of mine. Good AD/DA is the most expensive part of most components, so why spend a fortune on mediocre AD/DA in every digital component when you could just buy one good outboard AD/DA? They sell these as well...
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They've got a great implementation of their product using a rackmountable audio interface and either PCI or PCMCIA cards to hook it up to a computer. A card and interface together are only marginally more than getting their all-in-one card, and then to buy a second card to use with the same interface is a lot cheaper.
This also takes care of another pet pieve of mine. Good AD/DA is the most expensive part of most components, so why spend a fortune on mediocre AD/DA in every digital component when you could just buy one good outboard AD/DA? They sell these as well...