observer Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 hi, decided to try some homerecording - long story short - got M-Audio Firewire 410 interface of my friend, now to connect it to my pc I need firewire card. There's quite a lot of them on ebay with price range from £3 to £55. Which one would be good for me - not asking about certain model but if you can suggest something would be great. Thanks Kris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldG Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Anything based on a TI (Texas Instruments) chipset is preferable - VIA will do at a push... These are the only 2 worth considering for audio, as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyfisher Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I bought a firewire card years ago for downloading miniDV video for editing. I bought the cheapest I could find and it has been working fine ever since - for my camcorder, external firewire hard drives and my multi-channel audio interface. Firewire is a standard so all such cards should do the same basic thing. They also all use the same basic interface chips. Besides, how much risk is there in buying a £3 card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redstriper Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I also bought the cheapest I could find and it's been working fine for the past 6 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldG Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 [quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1324044055' post='1470169'] Firewire is a standard so all such cards should do the same basic thing. They also all use the same basic interface chips. Besides, how much risk is there in buying a £3 card? [/quote] If the £3 card has a TI or VIA chip then great - go for it.. You can find cheap cards with these chipsets and I know from experiece I can software monitor with a round trip of 4 -5 ms using either of these cards. Whereas a Ricoh chipset won't even continuosly stream without dropouts - again IME Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 plus the one on a TI chip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigman Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 [quote name='OldG' timestamp='1324043980' post='1470166'] Anything based on a TI (Texas Instruments) chipset is preferable - VIA will do at a push... These are the only 2 worth considering for audio, as far as I know. [/quote] Don't buy VIA - only TI will work with many FW interfaces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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