This is DAL's Digital S/PDIF Stand-alone card. It's a very good card, and I use it for all my digital transfers from DAT.....and it's the Dogs Nuts !!!
Having digital transfer is great, cos you can archive any session audio on H/Drive that you might want to remix in the future. You can also return DAT mixes into the PC with no signal degredation for stereo editing or CD and tape compilation, & if you're re-mixing...then it's straight into the PC from DAT, with no signal loss or extra noise....and straight out again to DAT as you mix.....ORGASMIC !!
In this area, there is very little product competition, and DAL have established themselves fairly well in the stand alone S/PDIF card area........You can get S/PDIF on the new Turtle Beach Pinnacle, but the thing is, that the Pinnacle Digital card, only comes as a Piggy-back Daughterboard for the Pinnacle audio card.....DAL also make a Daughterboard version of this Digital card for their "Audio Card D+".
So if you have already got a good soundcard, the DAL Digital is the only stand-alone available from the two companies. There are other digital cards around, such as the Midiman "D-Man" Card, but the DAL has a pretty solid reputation...The "D-Man" card retails at about £ 229, so it is cheaper, but I don't know of its quality........The DAL "Digital Only Card D" has dropped in price to £ 329.......A bargain !!
Anyhow, here's the spec' list :
- Format: S/PDIF
- Connectors : RCA
- Sample Rates: 48, 44.1, 32kHz
- 16Bit AT Bus Slot
- Windows, Windows 95, and Windows NT compatible
Bare in mind that these DAL cards require 2 IRQ's to install, as they utilise a seperate interrupt for each direction of signal flow.....
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