Sound card recommendation?

[Susamoschexianu]

Right now I have a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 that I'm looking to upgrade. The sound quality in linux is absolute ***. I've tried using various drivers and such to get better linux sound quality, but nothing so far has helped and I need a new card anyways. Are there any good cards that have reasonably good linux support out of the box/very easy to set up? I was thinking about the Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1.

[hard candy]

Here's a site that may help, linux audio quality site (http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/audio_quality_HOWTO.htm#supported_digi)
I use the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz- it works pretty well.

[bosox79]

Originally posted by Susamoschexianu
Right now I have a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 that I'm looking to upgrade. The sound quality in linux is absolute ***. I've tried using various drivers and such to get better linux sound quality, but nothing so far has helped and I need a new card anyways. Are there any good cards that have reasonably good linux support out of the box/very easy to set up? I was thinking about the Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1.

You may find this site helpful also Linux Audio-Quality-HOWTO (http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/quality/)

the previous site may be a little outdated check here (http://new.linuxnow.com/docs/content/Sound-HOWTO-html/Sound-HOWTO-3.html) also:cool:

[Gertrude]

I have had good luck with soundblaster cards.