Which PCI soundcard to fit a TB Rio on?

[CHiLL72]

Very recently I bought a Turtle Beach Monterey on eBay. It consists of a TB Tahiti and TB Rio daughterboard. I installed it on a Pentium III computer running Windows 98SE, using the Windows 95 drivers. Although this worked fine, I tried to put the Rio on one of my Diamond MX300 soundcards. Due to the unfortunate placing of the components on the Rio, this does not fit. Then I started looking for another soundcard in my collection that will take the Rio: Aureal Vortex2 2500, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, several Creative SB16 and AWE32 cards and a Roland MPU401-AT. No luck.... The Rio would not fit properly on any of these cards, either the crystal or one of the capacitors would get in the way.
I also tried the breakout box of a Terratec DMX6fire 24/96, which can hold a WaveBlaster type board. Again, a capacitor got in the way.
I tried putting an extra 26 pin header between the WB connector on the soundcard and the Rio, but I suppose the pins were too short, because that did not work.
I suppose I could remove the capacitors and solder them onto the other side of the Rio, but I'd rather not.
Does anyone here have a good suggestion to solve this problem (other than trying to find a fitting header to space the Rio and soundcard further apart)? A tip for a different host card maybe?

[menkau_ra]

I used Rio on my MX300 and burn the last one. The only card I know of that works OK with Rio is ESS 1868. Usually there are not so many components on them and Rio fits perfectly. Plus ESS is SB compatible.

[CHiLL72]

Did you burn out the Rio or the MX300?
My Rio is a revision 3.0, which has slightly different component placement from the previous revision 2.x.
I may look for an ESS card, but do you know a type/brand of board that is suitable?

[menkau_ra]

I burned MX300 board. I will make a picture of mine ESS board and post it for you.

[CHiLL72]

Thank you. But did the Rio at least work on the MX300 before it burned out?

[menkau_ra]

It did work. But it was VERY loud! I think what happened was that Rio didn't sit well enough on the MX300 and Ground wire wasn't connected.

[CHiLL72]

DB50XG on the MX300 is very loud too, I need to set the volume for MPU-401/Aux rather low. Shame about the MX300 though.

[menkau_ra]

Don't know about DB50XG, but my NEC clone of DB60XG works fine on MX300.
I still can't fine that ESS card, I've got 5 boxes with different hardware

[CHiLL72]

Thanks for your trouble! Please post again if you do find the card.

[menkau_ra]

Please post again if you do find the card.

That was really hard to find it, but here you go: