Look for a new sound card (Snow Leopard 64-bit)

[DaniFilth]

Hi Guys!

 

I'm looking for a new sound card for my hackintosh. I had a Azalia-Chip onboard but somehow the output connector broke and now it's not working anymore. I used a Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic PCI, but it's not supported on Mac. Now I want a new card thats supported by Mac (out of the box/official drivers), so no hacked drivers or stuff like that.

 

First I flirted with the ESI Maya44e (pci express) but people in ESI's message board are complaining about missing drivers for Snow Leopard running on 64 bit. ESI itself seems not to be interested in moving on their Mac driver development. This seems to be a general problem when I look at sound cards of other manufacturers (and there are only a few semi-professional PCIe cards on the market, I don't need a 600€ 19inch rack sound card).

 

So I'm looking for a sound card (USB or PCIe) that has official 64-bit Snow Leopard drivers. Price up to 150€.

Nice-to-have features:

- Two independent outputs

- MIDI interface

- 48V phantom power on mic input

- additional digital i/o

 

But basically I need something with simply an input and output, no 5.1/7.1 surround stuff.

 

Currently thinking about the Creative X-Fi Go! USB. It has only one input and output, but it's cheap and still seems to have good quality. Can anyone confirm that this one works on 64-bit Snow Leopard? A PCIe sound card would be nicer though, but I didn't find any suitable card in my price range.

 

Thanks for your help!