I picked up a Lynx One sound card (msrp $500) on ebay for $200, using Monkey Audio (APE) for lossless compresion, and foobar 2000 for my media player. It all sounds great but the sound card is designed for professional sound mixing people and sometimes I wonder if this makes the card a bit more difficult to work with. But it sounds great and I sold my MSB Dac/ McCormick Transport, have never looked back.
Audio/Video
Sherwood Newcastle AVP-9080R preamp
Sherbourn 5/1500A amp (5 x 200 watt/ch)
Front Speakers – Paradigm studio 20’s
Center – Paradigm Reference CC
Rears – Monitor Audio Silver S1
Sub – PSB Century SubSonic 2I
DVD/CD Kenwood Sovereign DV-5700 (w/ DVD audio)
Sony 36” XBR450, HDTV
Computer
Motherboard- MSI K7N2G-ILSR, CPU – AMD Athlon 2500, Window XP home, RAM – Kingston 512mb
Hard Drive – Maxtor 160GB, Case – Antec Sonata w/ Thermalright heatsink and Panaflo L1a fan
Video Card – ATI AIW 9600, Transcoder- Crescendo-Systems TCP2200, Powerstrip
Sound Card – LynxOne, Media Player – Foobar
DVD/CD Burner – Plextor PX-708A
Audio/Video
Sherwood Newcastle AVP-9080R preamp
Sherbourn 5/1500A amp (5 x 200 watt/ch)
Front Speakers – Paradigm studio 20’s
Center – Paradigm Reference CC
Rears – Monitor Audio Silver S1
Sub – PSB Century SubSonic 2I
DVD/CD Kenwood Sovereign DV-5700 (w/ DVD audio)
Sony 36” XBR450, HDTV
Computer
Motherboard- MSI K7N2G-ILSR, CPU – AMD Athlon 2500, Window XP home, RAM – Kingston 512mb
Hard Drive – Maxtor 160GB, Case – Antec Sonata w/ Thermalright heatsink and Panaflo L1a fan
Video Card – ATI AIW 9600, Transcoder- Crescendo-Systems TCP2200, Powerstrip
Sound Card – LynxOne, Media Player – Foobar
DVD/CD Burner – Plextor PX-708A