im a music production fan for quite some time now (nothing too serious, just like a hobby and for fun) i tested all production software since 1997/1998

im going to start to buy some new pc hardware

my first acquisition was some studio headphones Audiotechnica (they are exelent and im very happy with them)

now im going to buy one decent (not expensive) soundcard , and build a new pc too

anyone here used the M-Audio Audiophile USB ? is this fair for the price they cost? i want something cheap and reasonable

the price is good at Ze Mig L shop http://www.mk2.pt/produto.php?id=549 and i cant spend more than this for now

i always heard bad things about USB soundcards (pops and clicks on sound, even listem mp3 and that kind of stuff)

i choose one M-Audio product becouse im interested in try Protools too


this is my actual system (just for laughs haha , i build this pc myself in 2004 so is very old)

P4 3200MHZ (socket 478)

2GB RAM ( twinmos dualchannel 400mhz)

board asrock (i burned one MSI and one ASUS)

1 hard drive seagate barracuda SATA 160GB

1 hard drive western digital IDE 160GB

soundcard Audigy 2 ZS

Graphic card Nvidia 7600GT 256mb AGP


i run windows XP SP3 and Mac OSX 10.4.11 on this machine... (sonar 7.02 on windows hard disc and Logic 8.02 on mac hard disc)



in the end of this month i will have something like this:

processor quad core or better (Best Price/Value)

4Gb ram

2x 320 harddrive or better (Best Price/Value)

M-Audio Audiophile USB


studio monitors only in a near future , i dont have money for nothing more now



thanks in advance guys ;)