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Help, need simple Sound Card - pure bit-for-bit only (newbie)

Thanx for your help. I am dipping my toes into building a music server and the soundcard in my Dell has a digital out that I feed to my DAC in my home audio system. However, it sounds like poop and I noticed that Windows media player can control the volume. This tells me the tools are manupulating the digital signal and I don't want this. This happens whether I am playing from a CD in my computer drive or from WMA files (ripped with Windows lossless).

So, can anyone recomend a cheap soundcard that does what I want? Or is there more to what I want to do than I realize?

By the way, I am sending the signal to my Accuphase DP-67 which reads the data fine. Locks on with no problems. It just sounds horrible.


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Topic - Help, need simple Sound Card - pure bit-for-bit only (newbie) - Bruce-in-Philly 20:51:58 09/03/06 (4)


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