Delfina... worth buying.. or not?

[Robert17]

Hey all, I was looking at the Delfina soundcard, as I'll be needing a soundcard for my Amiga 4000, from what I can gather it works with zorro equipped amigas with the flipper thingy, anyone using one of these in a big box amiga? Just would like it for more modern games and playing MP3s.

Cheers

Robert

[Alma96]

Hello,

I have a Delfina Lite on one of the ZII slots of my A2000. After some fine-tuning installing the last version of the driver (4.15) and the appropriate library (in my case 4.16 patch 2), it works very well. I use it to play MP3. I use either delfmpeg in a shell windows or the delfinampeg.device with OS3.9 player. With these two program, the MPEG decoding is done by the Delfina's DSP, so you can play MP3 while you uses another program as the same time.Since I updated the library, there is no crash. I haven't made tests on the sound quality itself, but it is very comparable with the Soundblaster live 5.1 I have in my PC.

The other advantage of this sound card is that there is a CD audio input directly on the board, so you can adjust the CD volume with the delfina prefs program.

[yogisumo]

It's a nice card.  The "flipper" interface was never made.  You need something like and Xsurf with a clockport to plug it into as it doesn't have a ZorroII/III form.  This also means that you have to find a way to mount it somewhere.  Other than that, it is nice...

[HopperJF]

I think it is definitely worth buying, the Delfina is a really good card. Athough i haven't got an A4000 system I have seen it in action at AMIGA shows in the past and I'll tell you what - it is {bleep}ing brilliant, the sound quality is really superb and gives Paula a swift kick in the ass.

[Aledt]

I use a delfina lite card, and to be honest i reckon if  you have any other means to play mp3, use them instead. The delfinampeg.device is buggy, quality seems to be pretty bad, and it refuses to play mp3s at certain bitrates/frequencies. If you need a soundcard because your native sound is dead or something then it will do that (although its expensive for just that), if you play to use it for anything other than playing 16-bit samples then dont expect much, the days when amigas where great musicians tools are long gone.

[Crisisdog]

I have the clockport version and have not had a good experience yet with this model.  I only have an A3000, and have not been able to get the card to work off the clockport connector on my X-Surf card.  Running any app which should initialize the card causes my system to slow down to a crawl with no response from the Delfina.

 :-?

[Karlos]

HopperJF wrote:
I think it is definitely worth buying, the Delfina is a really good card. Athough i haven't got an A4000 system I have seen it in action at AMIGA shows in the past and I'll tell you what - it is {bleep}ing brilliant, the sound quality is really superb and gives Paula a swift kick in the ass.

Hey, Paula owns. You just have to get to know what she's good at (fist cocked back ready for the first person to suggest a non-audio role :lol:)

[Ancalimon]

i use a Delfina Lite. I soft overclocked it.  I use a patched library. It works like a charm playing mp3's. It sounds perfect. Far more superior than any Sound Blaster. (If you don't already know, Sound Blaster is one of the worst soundcards on the PC) It can play 49998 mp3s out of 50000 perfectly.

[darkcoder]

I have an A4000 and a X-surfII card.
I was considering buying the Delfina clockport and connecting
through the X-urf, but you make me wonder....

also, has the DElfina clockport the 1 x SPDIF connector?
I don't understand if the board has it or it was supposed to be provided with the flipper module, that never appeared.

anyone knows?

[K7HTH]

Aledt wrote:
I use a delfina lite card, and to be honest i reckon if  you have any other means to play mp3, use them instead. The delfinampeg.device is buggy, quality seems to be pretty bad, and it refuses to play mp3s at certain bitrates/frequencies. If you need a soundcard because your native sound is dead or something then it will do that (although its expensive for just that), if you play to use it for anything other than playing 16-bit samples then dont expect much, the days when amigas where great musicians tools are long gone.

Preach it, brother!!