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External sound device vs PCI soundcard

Hi all

I’m still feeling my way around the area of PC audio, so please don’t shoot me if I’m way off track.

After reading through many of the post on this site is seems the general consensus is that doing a D-A conversion inside to PC case degrades sound quality to much due to electrical interference.

One way I thought of getting past this problem was to use an external sound device like the M-audio Sonic Theater, USB. If the sensitive DAC process was kept away from the PC, wouldn’t the output signal be relatively good.

Any thought or experience with external sound devices vs. internal soundcard would be greatly welcome.

Cheers.
xs1

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can the M-Audio FireWire 410 be used with a turntable (direct input from a turntable) for converting analog to digital? turntables need a pre-amp if not mistaken....

i'm trying to get set up to record some vinyl to cd. I was also hoping to be able to use the device for some home studio recording as well. if the M-Audio FireWire 410 isn't a good choice or i need a supplemental piece of hardware please advise. i'm pretty much a rookie here.

thanks
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