Subject: Re: Creative Sound Blaster sound card From: Brian FG Katz <brian.katz@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:32:05 +0300 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_04F4_01CFBBC2.BB170010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For years we have relied on the RME series of audio interfaces. These = are very high quality, very stable controlled latency over multiple = channels, and easily operable on Win and Mac.=20 I would highly recommend anything they make.=20 -- Brian FG Katz, Ph.D, HDR Audio & Acoustique LIMSI - CNRS Rue John von Neumann Campus Universitaire d'Orsay B=E2t 508 91405 Orsay cedex=20 France Phone.=A0+=A0 33 (0)1 69 85 81 55 - Fax.=A0 +=A0 33 (0)1 69 85 80 88 http://www.limsi.fr web_group: http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/aa/ web_theme: http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/aa/thmsonesp/ -----Message d'origine----- De=A0: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx De la part de Tobias Overath Envoy=E9=A0: mardi 19 ao=FBt 2014 00:27 =C0=A0: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx Objet=A0: Creative Sound Blaster sound card Dear all, Creative have discontinued the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD sound = card, which I understand is widely used for studies requiring sound delivery = with high temporal precision. Creative say that there is no natural successor = to this sound card, but have pointed me to the Sound Blaster Z series (http://us.creative.com/p/sound-blaster/sound-blaster-z); has anybody = used this sound card and could perhaps provide some advice on its temporal characteristics and fidelity (regardless of all the signal processing software that it comes with and which is not really wanted for = delivering experimental stimuli)? If the Sound Blaster Z series is not the way to go, what would people recommend to use instead? 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