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Hi, I have just downgraded from an M-Audio Delta 66 to an Audiophile 25/66 but the drivers won't load. So I'm thinking how can I get the capability of the Audiophile without the driver problems. Prehaps a new card is the answer but the ones I have looked at don't have the right jacks to power my amplifyer. I need a right/left in and a right/left out with those RCA jacks.
Can anone avdise me what I can do ?....
 
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maybe your situation would be simplified with a RCA to 3.5mm adapter?
 
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jondavey said:
Won't there be a loss in sound quality ?
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Possibly, 3.5mm jacks aren't the most stable of solutions

But we are talking about PC audio that is dealing with high power components on the same PCB as well. Hardly audiophile territory. 3.5mm will be mostly the same as RCA, its the same signal going through.

If you want a real improvement go digital, like SPDIF out. Its a tremendous difference. Another big improvement is more recent motherboards with an ALC1220 on it for audio.
 
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jondavey said:
Hi, I have just downgraded from an M-Audio Delta 66 to an Audiophile 25/66 but the drivers won't load. So I'm thinking how can I get the capability of the Audiophile without the driver problems. Prehaps a new card is the answer but the ones I have looked at don't have the right jacks to power my amplifyer. I need a right/left in and a right/left out with those RCA jacks.
Can anone avdise me what I can do ?....
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https://www.google.com/search?clien...sB+y8lp8=#scso=uid_AknOWpycGKXSjwSP4LPABw_0:0

Get another M-Audio, or try a ZXR, or HT Omega
 
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But we are talking about PC audio that is dealing with high power components on the same PCB as well. Hardly audiophile territory. 3.5mm will be mostly the same as RCA, its the same signal going through.

The system is, primarilarly, for recording vinyl from turntables.

Get another M-Audio, or try a ZXR

I looked at the ZXR and I get more ins and out's from the audiophile 25/69 I used to have a Delta 66 series from M-Audio but I downgraded to, what I thought was going to be, a simpler solution. And it should be simple. I have the soundcard driver working, it seems, now. There is no longer a X through the speaker thing in the bottom tray but I can't configure the speakers.

Prehaps I have put the question wrong. It's more like; I have a good soundcard but I can't get it working.
As an update I think I have got the soundcards drivers installed properly now. TRhe card is showing up in all the right places in the Control Panel.
 
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