zano65;188889 Wrote: > Hello, i have managed to make my computer a good digital source (IMHO). > I'm using a Marian Trace Pro soundcard - > http://www.marian.de/en/products/trace_pro - which costs about $450 and > has AES EBU digital outputs the go into a TACT RCS digital preamp. I > find it slightly better than the Squeezebox, especially in the bass > region. As for digital noise caused by the computer considered by some > people as a hostile environment, not a trace. In your sentence the > words "suppose" , "probably" and "impossible" show that your opinion is > made before testing, probably influenced by your Audigy experience. If > you can try a pro soundcard i think you will change your mind. If the > idea of the soundcard inside the PC doesn't appeal to you, you still > have the option of taking a pro USB or Firewire (better) soundcard. I > love my Squeezebox but browsing the music collection is faster and > easier in the PC and you avoid the little drawbacks of the SB: omitting > some tracks, sometimes slow response. > Best regards, Jean.
My literary vagueness was indeed indicative of the fact that I have in no way exhausted the possibilities of getting really good computer sound - my computer is now in my main listening room, so I almost never really use it for music anyway. It's good to know that you can get decent sound quality from a soundcard: this will be useful once I move out of London and have a few more rooms! Cheers Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost and Anti-cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33724 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
