Hey guys
I am looking to buy an external soundcard for my macbook pro.
I use my mac for music, (mostly mp3's, some flac), tv (mostly 350mb files, but on occasion hd), movies (mostly dvd rips of 1.5gb, occasionally dvds and on rare occasions HD movies).
Not sure if it is worth me getting sound card due to the nature of the quality of the files I watch, as they are not the highest. But is that not what a soundcard is to do? Improve sound?
I listen/watch either through my creative T20 speakers, bose in ear headphones and when it arrives my new sennheiser hd 555's.
I was wondering if you guys could recommend a decent external sound card for no more than £40 or $80. I really have no need digital output/input connections, I just want a soundcard which makes listening simply more pleasurable.
Thanks for reading and any suggestions.
On another issue, from your suggestions previously, I got a microsoft noteboook 5000 bluetooth mouse. It is awesome, but it has the same problem as my last mouse, where leopard doesn't recognise the middle click nor side buttons, strange as it recongised these button on my other microsoft intelliexplorer mouse. Anyone have this problem?
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This Creative card should do everything you need. If you're using primarily MP3's, though, I wouldn't really say you need a sound card as the MBP does quite well in this area.
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a link would be nice seeing as creative as two soundcards...
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NO!!!!! don't get the Xmod!!!! simply waste of money!!!!
how do I know? because I have one here. although I paid only $40, it just doesn't worth the price! -
i use my xmod with a beolab pc speakers, it sound so much better than the built in sound of my 17" MBP. i dont use the crystaliser or the cmss3d.
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saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate
An external sound card for a MBP is a waste of money. The Realtek HD chipset Apple uses is actually quite good. A better investment would be a quality set of headphones or speakers.
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Unless you use sequencing software that requires low latency audio/midi connections, you don't need to get an external soundcard.
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the OP has sennheiser hd 555, it desire a good soundcard.
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/tb_srm/
http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=610&subcategory=611&product=15186 -
hmm, I am tempted by the xmod.
What about buying a amplifier and connecting my speakers and headphones to it?
Or is that not possible because my T20's use a 3.5mm input, instead of speaker wires? -
does ur notebook comes with optical audio jack? if so; an amplifier is a feasable option. if u're using the standard analogue jack; then quality will be just the same.
External Soundcard
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