backwoods
12-19-2007, 09:31 AM
Right now I am looking at buying a preamp, and the cost for one most likely is going to reach another $300+.
Currently, just for processing, will put me at a used price of 3k using multiple rane rpm26z's and an rpm2 along with whatever preamp I end up with. Retail would have been, well, let's not go there. ;)
I built an HTPC a year ago and it really wasn't anything special. Could do dvr and so forth, but didn't work with digital cable, let alone HD.
Now, I'm more interested in the DSP side of things. My HT is fully active and requires 16 channels. With the new LG blu-ray/hd drives now getting below $300, an HTPC is looking more appealing.
I've been looking at the lynx aes 16 for a sound card, and considering software to run along with it. It is made for ASIO and talking with them, you won't need to do the generic in/out on the card for it to function correctly. It has built in dolby decoders, and will keep up with all the latest HD formats.
Help me decide on what I should use to build this guy, and I will give it a comparison directly to my rane/outlaw setup I currently have.
What software should I run? What other soundcards?
The computer as it sits right now, is using 4 250g seagate drives in a raid 5 with an intel dual 2.8 and 4 gig of pc2 6400 running sli with a pair of 8600gt cards.
It's been able to handle most everything I have thrown at it so far.
Figure I'll add a bluray/hd drive and that should do it for everything else.
I've been looking at console, among others, and need some feedback here.
On the soundcard, XLR outputs would be dandy!
Right now the system has xp pro on it, but I have media center and vista ultimate at my disposal.
Currently, just for processing, will put me at a used price of 3k using multiple rane rpm26z's and an rpm2 along with whatever preamp I end up with. Retail would have been, well, let's not go there. ;)
I built an HTPC a year ago and it really wasn't anything special. Could do dvr and so forth, but didn't work with digital cable, let alone HD.
Now, I'm more interested in the DSP side of things. My HT is fully active and requires 16 channels. With the new LG blu-ray/hd drives now getting below $300, an HTPC is looking more appealing.
I've been looking at the lynx aes 16 for a sound card, and considering software to run along with it. It is made for ASIO and talking with them, you won't need to do the generic in/out on the card for it to function correctly. It has built in dolby decoders, and will keep up with all the latest HD formats.
Help me decide on what I should use to build this guy, and I will give it a comparison directly to my rane/outlaw setup I currently have.
What software should I run? What other soundcards?
The computer as it sits right now, is using 4 250g seagate drives in a raid 5 with an intel dual 2.8 and 4 gig of pc2 6400 running sli with a pair of 8600gt cards.
It's been able to handle most everything I have thrown at it so far.
Figure I'll add a bluray/hd drive and that should do it for everything else.
I've been looking at console, among others, and need some feedback here.
On the soundcard, XLR outputs would be dandy!
Right now the system has xp pro on it, but I have media center and vista ultimate at my disposal.