OT Best Quality Sound Card - Least Amount of Money

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Rick asked:
*What's the best bang for the buck,  financially,  for a Sound Card
for a PC these days  (including older gear that is no longer made but
still readily available through places like E Bay)?

You could look for one of the older Terratec devices like the dmx
6fire (PCI with breakout box). Or, even more on a budget, basically I
suspect even a cheap crystal chipset is way better than your
monitoring equipment. However, with most of those really cheap
chipsets the A/D converters may be a problem (and they are in your
production signal chain, which the D/As for your listening needs
aren't).

But yep, Terratec - and they even have a decent headphone preamp.

            Rainer