Josea
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Thanks for all the tips and replies. Well, when there were the old PC's slots (ISA, PCI) I think there were more options than now. Maybe because stereo sound (2 channels) is overpassed now. So you have to go to very specialized hardware, like the professional gear. I don't think that to have digital stereo audio input and output from a computer mean to invest a great amount of money. For the two old cards I owned, I didn't have to spend more than € 200, and its performance has been flawless. At the moment I'm thinking as the best option to buy a motherboard that still have a PCI slot and get an old audio card (the M-Audio Delta DiO 24/96 is perfect for me).
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Hello Nikhil, I didn't know about that card. Thanks for the tip, but it isn't exactly what I'm looking for. I've been checking the specs and this is a multichannel card with MADI BNC I/O, when what I need are S/PDIF (based on AES/EBU) RCA and Toslink I/O. I don't know if both standards are compatible, but, above all, is its price: around 1.300 €, and for what I need to do, it would be like buying a Rolls Royce to go to the corner store.
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Hello everybody, I'm unsuccessfully looking for an hi-end audio card with only stereo digital I/O (coaxial RCA and optical Toslink) to transfer DAT tape recordings to PC for software editing. But, please, let me first to tell you a bit of history... I started around 18 years ago with a Digital Only CardD from Digital Audio Labs. This card worked fine for many years in an old PC (if I remeber well, this was an ISA card!). But that card stopped working 4 years ago. Then, I replaced it by an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (at the time, I couldn't afford a Card Deluxe from Digital Audio Labs, and this was also beyond of my little needs: just stereo digital transferring from DAT to PC). The Audiophile 2496 is a PCI card, it's still working, but this one keeps me attached to the old PC (a Pentium 3 with Windows XP). Now, I want to build a new PC, and that means to go into a PCI-express world. Well... I'm unable to find any PCIe audio card (hi-end grade) having at least (or only) both coaxial and optical I/O. There is any? Thanks for reading and help.