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I'm buing dali concept 6 and NAD C320BEE to improve my music listening from my PC (like >192kbps VBR mostly).Now i need a soundcard or something that can do DAC for somewhere around or below $200. Thinking about M-audio Audiophile PCI 2496.
- Is it a good alternative in that price range?
- other suggestions?
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USB, separate power supply, great reviews for the price ($120)
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Just to make sure this is clear. The USB audio mode supported by this device is the adaptive mode. In this mode the master clock is still on the PC and the chip can do resampling.In async mode the master clock is on the DAC and there is back channel to the sneder to control the rate at which it sends data.
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Try the Juli@, you can find it for $120 or so. It should outperform any of the M-Audio offerings.
This is hard to beat:
Chaintech AV710 $ 24.00 Newegg
Behringer SRC2496 $ 150.00 pro musician stores
Glass toslik cable $ 20.00
If you can not get hold of Behringer, buy ART DI/O for $100Glass toslink is comparrable to good Coax. It cost considerably less and provides the main benefit- isolates PC and amplifier. Make sure that PC is plugged in to one breaker circuit and the audio on another.
Does that Chaintec card have ASIO drivers?If not, are you using Kernel Streaming, Direct Sound or ASIO4ALL?
I am assuming this is the Chaintec that everyone is raving about because it does true 44.1kHz passthrough - no resampling to 48khz
I had the Chaintech AV710 in my system and couldn't get it to pass HDCD material to my DAC. Don't remember the details, but I played with it for about a day and gave up. Not "bit pure" IMO. If anyone knows how to make it cleanly pass the data, I'm all ears. My brother has the card in his computer now.
Presto, you may check this thread:
http://archive.avsforum.com/avs-vb/history/topic/459396-1.html
Chaintech AV710 is one of the best deals when the money is tight.
I think I did read all that stuff at one point.Is this where guys are using a third-party driver to get the thing to have ASIO capability using a "real" ASIO driver...and not ASIO4ALL?
What are you using for drivers? WDM or ASIO?
Just wondering.
And, how does X-Fi XtremeMusic do? I know its kinda low-end but thats the price range I'm looking at
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