Sound card recommendation

M Audio "Audiophile" 24/192. About $130-150 depending on where you go.... Try Sam Ash Music or JR music, both are online..

Depending on what connections and features you might want, there are several choices.

M-Audio makes decent stuff for the money. There a couple to choose from between $100 and $200. I use one of their cards based off the delta 66 sound card, but I write music so you might not need all the features. E-mu can make decent stuff too. They were bought out by soundblaster a few years ago, but they left them alone mostly.

If you use a laptop or want to be portable they make usb or firewire interfaces that would work. Don't know what you want the card to do. Digidesign even makes a flash drive size interface that has a 1/8" headphone out.

Blindjim & Tstan7777,

Thanks for the responses. I have a laptop, so USB/ IEEE1394 is the way to go for me. The ideal sound card for me has RCA inputs, USB or IEEE1394 output and a good ADC. All I want to do is connect my preamp to the computer and record a few records.

Is that what you want to do? Record(digitally capture)your records(lp's)?

Tstan7777,

Yes, all I want is something to go between my phono preamp and computer to digitally record some records. Of the units you and Blindjim recommended, the M-Audio Mobile Pre or the E-Mu Tracker look to be closest to what I want.