In theory you're right, though in practice who knows? You're still counting on your soundcard driver/manufacturer to pass the signal through cleanly.
I've got my living room PC running an ASIO driver through my MAudio 24/96 card. It sounds exceptional, but I haven't tried to compare a FLAC/WAV file via the PC vs my CD transport. One thing that gave me pause was that I think my sound card's mixer (I'm not talking about Windows volume control) allows me to attenuate the outgoing signal. I wasn't happy to see that. The fact that the mixer is willing to change the signal isn't a good sign. Perhaps at zero attenuation it is a bit-perfect transfer. But again, who knows? -- banzai ------------------------------------------------------------------------ banzai's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5008 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22636 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
