External sound card for Macbook Pro

[Mac Questions]

Followup to my thread here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=9567899

Now I'm looking for an external sound card for my Mac. I have a 2007 Macbook Pro but will be upgrading to a new model sometime soon (so an ExpressCard is not an option.) Firewire preferred, although if a USB sound card works well, than that's fine too.

Does anybody know of any? All I can find at the moment is the Griffin Firewave. Any experiences with it? From what I can tell, it has been discontinued.

EDIT: Also found the Creative Sound Blaster X-FI 5.1 USB, but I can't see any Mac support.

 

[mbestel]

M-Audio?

Hi,

Maybe check out www.m-audio.com the products aren't cheap but are well regarded.

Cheers,

Mark

 

[itickings]

What is your budget?

 

[gumbyx84]

You could look into the Creative XMod. I picked one up on Amazon for $30 last week. Arrived in less then 3 days too. I haven't been able to test it myself, but have read many goods things about on this very forum. I will post my own little "review" of it in this thread after I test it out later today if you want.