PCI sound card or addon with RCA output?

[caenus]

Anyone know if there is a sound card that has the two RCA connectors on them (red/white connections). I need either a sound card or an addon of some sort for another sound card. I don't want to spend that much therefore the live drive for sound blasters is out. Also, I dont want to convert the stereo plug into RCA w/ an adapter. You lose quality that way. Also I don't need optical for my project.


I found this dealing with my problem but it is for an ISA sound card (SB AWE64 gold): thread

 

[mattyrug]

U want it for the Inputs or Outputs??
If it's for both, your not gonna find much in the sub-$150 range. try M-Audio or RME Pro Audio for some of there cards. Your not really gonna find too many 'Consumer' type cards with RCA I/O's, nevermind Balanced I/O's.

 

[caenus]

Its for outputs only, I wont need inputs - it won't be used for a audio editing machine.

 

[Becks2k]

What quality are you going to lose? The cable is going to make no difference if you're going to get a $50 soundcard.

sblive+livedrive = crap still, sblive ruins allsound sampling it to 48khz and theres no way to make it not do that

get a santacruz over a sblive, it doesn't resample anything... ~$70-80 i think
next up is something like the audiophile2496 ~130-160$

you can try the stereolink.... $130, which is gonna blow away a sblive for example www.stereo-link.com

 

[corkyg]

All you need for RCA outputs is a patch cable that has them on one end and the stereo mini-jack on the other and any sound card will do. I rip from two tape decks into a standard stereo mini-jack on my sound card, and the tape decks have RCA connectors. No problem - any audio shop has all sorts of patch cable combinations.

 

[caenus]

I will probably end up doing that, but didn't want to cause you do lose quality. I mentioned that I didn't really want to go that route in my original post. Thanks anyways.

 

[fr]

Doesn't the Live!Drive have them?

http://www.soundblaster.com/accessories/livedrive/

 

[corkyg]

"... will probably end up doing that, but didn't want to cause you do lose quality."

Not really. Good patch cables handle much more quality that any computer sound card is capable of producing. If that were the case, all components in a home theater or stero system would be degraded . . . and they're not.