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using my computer as a music server

Please I am new to todays audio world. I began my interest in home stero in the late seventies, and left for the last 25 years. Were have i been! smiles. My how the audio world has changed! I am starting out fresh as a new blade of grass, still the same root.
I am also in the market for a new computer. Therin is my question. I assume it has already been asked, and discussed for years. What do i need to know, and were do I need to go to determine the current "state" of the use of a computer as a replacement for other forms of transport, such as CD? Can a good sound card actually reproduce the quility of a high end CD transport?
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audioengr
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A "sound card" will never beat a good transport, however there are a miriad of computer interfaces, both stand-alone and integrated into DACs that will beat CD transports, and even vinyl. The important aspect is the jitter of the master clocks. Dont rely on specs either. There is a lot of marketing BS out there.

Look for good USB DACs (asynchronous) or USB converters. By good, I mean the customer feedbacks are raving about them.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
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