What sound card do you recommend for use with baudline?
There are many sound cards that work just great with baudline. It is best to avoid the newest and latest sound card / integrated motherboard chip solution since it tends to take a while for Linux drivers to be written and evolve into high quality solutions. If I had to recommend a sound card for use with baudline I would suggest the Ensoniq ES1371 card also known as the Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI16 and SB128 cards. These audio cards are widely available, fairly inexpensive (~$20 US), have good noise measurements, and have very high quality OSS/Free kernel drivers. For a laptop solution I would recommend the Labtec Verse-704 USB Microphone, it is fairly inexpensive and it has good noise measurements (excellent for a PC based microphone), and the OSS/Free USB audio drivers work acceptably. [Update December 2004] The Labtec Verse-704 USB Microphone is now the Logitech USB Microphone. It is still the same product except the green LED is now blue. [Update September 2005] For a detailed
