laptop soundcard

any good results from using the factory soundcard as the only source?

deegood wrote:any good results from using the factory soundcard as the only source?

I seriously doubt it. They just can't compare to the better pro audio cards.

if you tried it you would know, lack of I/O's is one, high latency is two...only laptops that come with decent sound card is apple


not sure what kind of laptop you have but maybe you can pop one of those pcmcia interfaces in it

ASIO supporting soundcard are recommended

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I have a sony vaio(09 w/windows 7(64bit)- it sounds better through the headphones(sony mdr7506) than when I go straight to the monitors

I use a Gateway Nv5207u, and ASIO4ALL, believe it or not, and it's headphone jack doubles as an optical out. Latency is fantastically low. The laptop is my sound module, I've used all kinds of high-cpu-and-ram eating instruments simultaneously with little trouble. The latency is negligable, for real, the instruments feel tight to the drums. However, I'm stuck to two channels of output. That sucks balls in and of itself, but I can deal with it for now. MTC is my friend.

I saw a couple of other laptops on google that had this same soundcard, a Conexant something or other, I can't remember just now and It's not listed by name in the device manager because I use the proprietary Windows 7 driver.

Check out your hardware. It'll do in a pinch with that ASIO4All, even analog, maybe 24 bit. Hey, sometimes we gotta do what we gotta do until the upgrade can pay for itself. man I am baked right now....

quietizkept wrote:: man I am baked right now....

you don't say .... would've never thought that!4 reply. gonna grab one of the new mboxes