I am using Apple Airport wireless unit with its audio out connected to the benchmark media DAC1. I store all my music, lossless, on my notebook and stream it to the DAC1 through the apple unit.
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.
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.