ESI Juli @ R PCI Sound Card

I have used this ESI juli@ for about 8 years and due to a malfunction of my PC it was damaged but it is the only one I have found that does what I need for my home studio so without hesitation I have bought a replacement , I highly recommend this for any home studio, it is really easy to install and I had it up and working within about 15 minutes of taking it out of the box and was back recording again. the choice of jack or phono is another plus also the midi works really well, I cannot praise this enough

I have been using this card for a while and it provides a simple solution for operating a DAW.Plus points (new)Up to 192KHz 24 bitEither RCA or jack in/ outsSPDIFMIDIASIO supportNo external boxMinus pointsMIDI cable drops out if movedThe MIDI cable pins are prone to damageWill no longer configure above 16bit or 48KHz using ASIO4ALL or other audio drivers

Perfect for my needs - sound quality is excellent and MIDI works well.No fancy software and extras, it just does exactly as described very well.

I have used this card in Win XP and never had any problems. So I'd give this card 5/5 rating for Win XP use. However, this card does not work very well in Win 7 64 bit and should be avoided. Drivers are very old, so for example you can't change sample rate without booting your computer. Using this card in Win 7 is very annoying. Look elsewhere.