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    AMD & Intel Sound Platform Updates For Linux 6.2 Along With Other Audio Updates

    Phoronix: AMD & Intel Sound Platform Updates For Linux 6.2 Along With Other Audio Updates

    While the Linux 6.1 stable kernel isn't even being released until later today, there already have been a number of feature pull requests submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.2 kernel cycle. Due to the merge window being the two weeks leading up to Christmas, those with generous holiday/vacation time have been sending in their pull requests in advance. One of those early pull requests is all of the sound subsystem updates...

    AMD & Intel Sound Platform Updates For Linux 6.2 Along With Other Audio Updates - Phoronix
    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.2-Sound-Updates
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    Got so used to my Audigy 2 ZS (or whatever the exact model was) that for the new all-pci-express rig I've bought the Creative SB PCI-E that is basically the same Audigy model even with the PCI-E interface bridged on the board to the old PCI.
    Love its hardware MIDI synth.

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      @ Michael Larabel : I think you meant "smattering" not "smothering."

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        Summied?

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          Originally posted by mos87 View Post
          Got so used to my Audigy 2 ZS (or whatever the exact model was) that for the new all-pci-express rig I've bought the Creative SB PCI-E that is basically the same Audigy model even with the PCI-E interface bridged on the board to the old PCI.
          Love its hardware MIDI synth.
          I used an M-Audio Revolution 5.1 PCI card (Envy24HT chipset) for years. It was a wonderful card for listening to music with headphones and it also did other analog audio very well for a reasonable price. It's a shame that VIA had to buy it, because that was good hardware, but VIA drove it into the ground with crappy Windows 7 drivers. At least it stayed useful in the Linux world for a while.

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            Originally posted by DanL View Post

            I used an M-Audio Revolution 5.1 PCI card (Envy24HT chipset) for years. It was a wonderful card for listening to music with headphones and it also did other analog audio very well for a reasonable price. It's a shame that VIA had to buy it, because that was good hardware, but VIA drove it into the ground with crappy Windows 7 drivers. At least it stayed useful in the Linux world for a while.
            I'm using a Terratec card with this chipset. Daily. It's one of the best chipsets you can get - as long as you have a PCI slot.
            But I suppose you can easily get a mainboard with decent onboard sound nowadays, if you have an eye on it.

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              Originally posted by Old Nobody View Post
              I'm using a Terratec card with this chipset. Daily. It's one of the best chipsets you can get - as long as you have a PCI slot.
              But I suppose you can easily get a mainboard with decent onboard sound nowadays, if you have an eye on it.
              Yeah, I got an Aorus board with very nice analog audio (Realtek ALC1220). It's not quite as good as my old M-Audio Revo, but it's a significant upgrade over the old onboard stuff that used to come with midrange or low-end mobos.

              Nowadays, I've moved on to a DAC, Yamaha receiver and bookshelf speakers. My ears don't like headphones the way they did when I was younger.

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                Originally posted by DanL View Post

                Yeah, I got an Aorus board with very nice analog audio (Realtek ALC1220). It's not quite as good as my old M-Audio Revo, but it's a significant upgrade over the old onboard stuff that used to come with midrange or low-end mobos.

                Nowadays, I've moved on to a DAC, Yamaha receiver and bookshelf speakers. My ears don't like headphones the way they did when I was younger.
                my issue with a lot of these boards supremeFX asus boards are that they have real good headphone dacs (in my case ESS ES9023P​), but they are only wired up to front panel headphone port. which means unless you go out of your way to get a case with nice insulated cable, or buy one yourself, it's pretty much useless. so you are stuck using the ALC1220's dac anyway.

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                  While I have a box of sound cards from over the years, M-Audio, Creative and finally Asus Xonar, I have settled unto using an external DAC in my Allen & Heath ZED mixer.

                  It's a PCM29xx USB audio CODEC from Texas Instruments and requires no special driver.

                  I have several other DAC's, but I like the sound of this one. It works for me.

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