Archiving Digital Audio - Better Than CD sound cards

SB Audigy2 Support
I need to digitize hundreds of hours worth of audio. I only want to do this once. So I'm going to digitize it at a higher than CD resolution. I need to get a new soundcard and the SoundBlaster is one I am considering.

This page is for Audigy2 (emu10k2) chipset cards. They can do 24bit 192Khz with 106dB SNR. The Platinum ed adds a "Audigy2Drive", 5 1/4" bay used to hook up digital in/out and also includes a IR remote. Look at Creative Labs website for more information. This newer and more advanced DSP (Digital Signal Processor) has lots of neat features with the good support under Linux. This how-to covers ALSA since at this time (05/03/2003) the OSS (emu10k1) driver doesn't seem to fully support Audigy2 cards.