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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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jonasholmgrene1b9
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I have juts aquired a USB driven M-Audio sound card, called MobilePre. I havent had time to test it thorougly yet, but my intention is to use it as a mobile test-setup with a laptop and a Behringer Microphone.

Anyone has some experience with this card used as a mobile testsystem like I intend to, or any other experiences with this soundcard?

Rgds,
Jonas
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