Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like? -ACID Product Family

Subject:Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like? Posted by: ohpossum Date:12/12/2002 4:15:26 PM With the m-audio driver probs people have seen, I'm leaning towards the Echo products. Anyone still using the old 20-bit Gina with Acid4.0? Thanks!
Subject:RE: Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like? Reply by: Polaris20 Date:12/12/2002 4:30:52 PM I'm using the Echo Mia, and I love it.
Subject:RE: Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like? Reply by: dkistner Date:12/13/2002 12:52:10 PM I have an Echo Mia, and I was pretty blown away by the difference in sound quality over my old low-end Soundblaster. It's really sweet. But I'll have to say: it does not mask noise in audio as well as the Soundblaster did. I'm not talking about noise from the card; I'm talking about noise in the original wave file. I'm killing myself over a huge audio restoration project right now (90 minutes of endless hell), and I swear I'm dreaming--HALLUCINATING--clicks. Every time I go through this material, I hear more garbage in it. But that's the way I got it! It seems to me the Mia is pretty faithful to the original, which is great if you're trying to get your own great audio work done; a drag sometimes if you just want to listen to some other people's stuff.
Subject:RE: Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like? Reply by: MyST Date:12/13/2002 1:25:23 PM I own the Mia, and I'm also happy with it. The only "drawback" is if you plan on using a midi contoller, you'll need an interface. The 2496 has the midi port. M
Subject:RE: Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like? Reply by: spesimen Date:12/13/2002 7:43:28 PM i use an echo gina24. it's got great converters - any soundcard that lets you hear 'problems' in other folks audio is a good thing! that's why pros also use very accurate monitoring for their entire signal chain. the only negative point is that the ASIO for the gina24 doesn't work quite right in acid4 - there are pops and crackles. It works fine with the MME driver, and ASIO works great in all other apps, so unless you plan to do lots of softsynth stuff in acid, it's still a great card.

Subject:Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like?

Posted by: ohpossum

Date:12/12/2002 4:15:26 PM

With the m-audio driver probs people have seen, I'm leaning towards the Echo products.

Anyone still using the old 20-bit Gina with Acid4.0?

Thanks!

Subject:RE: Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like?

Reply by: Polaris20

Date:12/12/2002 4:30:52 PM

I'm using the Echo Mia, and I love it.

Subject:RE: Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like?

Reply by: dkistner

Date:12/13/2002 12:52:10 PM

I have an Echo Mia, and I was pretty blown away by the difference in sound quality over my old low-end Soundblaster. It's really sweet. But I'll have to say: it does not mask noise in audio as well as the Soundblaster did. I'm not talking about noise from the card; I'm talking about noise in the original wave file. I'm killing myself over a huge audio restoration project right now (90 minutes of endless hell), and I swear I'm dreaming--HALLUCINATING--clicks. Every time I go through this material, I hear more garbage in it. But that's the way I got it!

It seems to me the Mia is pretty faithful to the original, which is great if you're trying to get your own great audio work done; a drag sometimes if you just want to listen to some other people's stuff.

Subject:RE: Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like?

Reply by: MyST

Date:12/13/2002 1:25:23 PM

I own the Mia, and I'm also happy with it.
The only "drawback" is if you plan on using a midi contoller, you'll need an interface. The 2496 has the midi port.

M

Subject:RE: Echo Mia or Gina or M-Audio Audiophile 2496? which do you like?

Reply by: spesimen

Date:12/13/2002 7:43:28 PM

i use an echo gina24. it's got great converters - any soundcard that lets you hear 'problems' in other folks audio is a good thing! that's why pros also use very accurate monitoring for their entire signal chain.

the only negative point is that the ASIO for the gina24 doesn't work quite right in acid4 - there are pops and crackles. It works fine with the MME driver, and ASIO works great in all other apps, so unless you plan to do lots of softsynth stuff in acid, it's still a great card.