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HI guys,
  I'm looking at new soundcards  cos I'm going to get one in the near future. At the moment I'm budgeting about a grand ozzie .thats about five hundred u.s and about 3/-6d sterling .So far the hoontech C-port is looking good but the delta 1010lt is also looking good . I want low to no latency when playing softsynths and such ,I only need stereo in ,maybe more out plus I want spdif and a midi in/out . It seems the cards with limited in out also present higher latency[ the emagic hardware page seems to show the same cards performing better and better as you move thru the page and I'm assuming they leave the old benchmarks up when they retest on a better machine ] so if anyone has some thoughts please let me know . The multiface is out it's two grand here and thats one grand too much .  I'm tempted to buy online and jump in the deep end having installed sound/video cards , ram , hard drives and cd's , floppies myself , anyone know a good online store and are regions relevant in sourcing hardware from offshore apart from the voltage issue and that aint an issue here is it .
                                                    Paul
                                                    "it's not easy being green" ......Kermit the frog   


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