Good sound card for mac?

[Binary]

Im looking for an internal sound card for mac, i have a Hackintosh and im trying to find a good internal card for $99. Something to really make my build a workstation on the sound side. Any suggestions?

[plissken]

I'm not touching a recommendation for a PCIe sound card for a hackintosh with a 10 foot pole...

[Binary]

6 hours ago, plissken said:

I'm not touching a recommendation for a PCIe sound card for a hackintosh with a 10 foot pole...

okay... thanks for the useful reply

[wgscott]

This place probably isn't the best resource for the kind of advice you want.  Most folks here want to bypass their internal sound card by using a multi-$K stand-alone DAC, and most of the purpose-built computers users have aren't running OS X/macOS, but rather linux or windows.

 

This is the only one I know of, and it is $350   https://www.amazon.com/SOtM-tX-USBexp-Audiophile-Quality-audio/dp/B072F34FDD

 

 

[mansr]

The Sound Blaster brand is live and well. Asus also has some PCIe sound cards. I have no idea about the performance of either. There are probably others too, but those are what my usual vendor stocks.

[DavidL]

I'd suggest your best-value-for-money solution could be a moderately priced external audio device such as those made by RME.

http://www.rme-audio.de/en/

If you already have a good DAC you could use the RME as a digital-to-digital converter (e.g. USB-to-SPDIF). This is likely to give better SQ than a sound card.

 

[kirkmc]

13 hours ago, Binary said:

okay... thanks for the useful reply

I agree with him. I built a Hackintosh, and adding any hardware could be a nightmare. You're better off using a USB device. 

[miguelito]

On ‎11‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:53 PM, Binary said:

Im looking for an internal sound card for mac, i have a Hackintosh and im trying to find a good internal card for $99. Something to really make my build a workstation on the sound side. Any suggestions?

Dragonfly Black. Will even do MQA rendering. It's USB though, but very small and no drivers are required.

[mansr]

1 minute ago, miguelito said:

Dragonfly Black. Will even do MQA rendering. It's USB though, but very small and no drivers are required.

A PCI card will probably perform better.

[peabreu]

Anything Metric Halo is top notch and full support to all OS versions, probably one of the most stable solutions in the market, else look at Prism. If not look at pure hifi and there are a lot of options, I stick with Chord. All these are external solutions.

 

If you really want internal solutions I would look no further than Lynx audio, very high quality and professional support:

 

https://www.lynxstudio.com/products/e22/

 

https://www.lynxstudio.com/products/e44/