Best sound card for Mediator SX PCI bus board?

[Dwyloc]

I have recently purchased a Mediator SX PCI bus board and was thinking about adding a sound card to my classic Amiga setup.

Dose anyone have any advice about which model of card works best,  I was thinking about getting a Terratec 512i from amigakit as I have a Terratec card in my PC and I am very happy with it.  But it more than twice the price of an SB128 and I have know idea if it’s really any better.

I was just planning to use it to playback mp3 and mix the onboard audio from Paula and my CD-ROM so I don’t really care about recording quality, but I am willing to pay the extra if the more expensive card will give be better sound quality when connected to my HiFi or a more stable system.

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[Dwyloc]

Legerdemain wrote:

Now, I'm no guru on this very matter... though I have to say that pretty much every PCI soundcard I've tried on PC's the last 10 years or so have generated a 'humming' noise when connected to the amplifier.

I don't have any problems with humming with any of my sound cards at home but the cheapest card I have is an Creative Audigy card and my main system has an older high end Teratec card, but I don't expect a £10 sound card to be as good as £200 one even if I have had it for a few years now.

All that I do know for a fact is that the Soundblaster 128 in combination with the Mediator, at least in my case, generates no 'humming' at all. If I put it in my PC the 'humming' is horrible. Why? I haven't got a clue!

The cheaper Soundblaster card is sounding like a better deal at this stage.

I guess my next question is which set of drivers am I best using Elbox’s drivers supplied with the bus board or the OpenPCI drivers http://bvernoux.free.fr/DevPCI.php