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Soundcard upgrade or amp upgrade good enough

post #1 of 4
12/13/05 at 11:39am
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I currently have a Chaintech AV710 with a very cheap amp off ebay. I have a gilmore lite on the way, should be here any day. Question is - Would upgrading my soundcard to a emu 0404 be dramatic improvement with the gilmore over chaintech and gilmore? Thanks in advance.
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post #2 of 4
12/13/05 at 3:31pm
From what I've read you would do very well by upgrading your soundcard. It will probably be a bigger difference than upgrading your amp. (?)

Or you could keep the AV-710 and get an external DAC. Something like the DAC-AH for $135. That would be my plan.
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post #3 of 4
12/13/05 at 3:49pm
I use the optical out of the chaintech to an external DAC and it sounds very good.
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post #4 of 4
12/13/05 at 3:50pm
The Lite is a very revealing amp and I'd suspect that you're going to want that soundcard upgrade pretty soon.
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