Which sound card gives best quality sound?

[swanusa]

I have a Roland Studio Package which has a digital mixer and a PCI card to connect it to the computer. I don\'t need a card for recording purpose, I need a card which I can use for GigaStudio 160 and which will give me very good quality sound (output). Please tell which sound card gives best quality output.

[Simon Ravn]

Any card with digital out should have the same quality.

[vudoo]

not quite since the stability/quality of the clock is VERY important, so it depends on the clock you use as master within your digital signal path.

[swanusa]

So which one should I get?

[elle]

You can\'t go wrong with : echo, aardvark, RME. In fact the availability and quality of the drivers is equaly important.

[swanusa]

One more thing I need to be able to do is have as many as MIDI channels as possible. I would be using Gigastudio 160 and it provides 64 channels of MIDI, right? Does it depend on the sound card or I would just need to have more MIDI ports.

[elle]

you can have a separate midibox (have a look at ùidiman) or go for the Egosys wamirack, which has lots of midi included.