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Sound card to DAC spdif question

post #1 of 5
7/1/10 at 1:58am
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Please pardon my naïveté: I have an X-fi Titanium soundcard hooked up to my V-DAC via toslink (optical, spdif). Here are my questions about the consequences of doing that:



1. I am wondering if the sound card's xram and other processes are completely negated or passed on to the V-DAC?



2. I still get 3D positioning and whatnot, but are the affects of lower quality because the V-DAC is overwriting processes that the sound card was designed to do?



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Edited by sainthoodx - 7/1/10 at 1:59am
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post #2 of 5
7/3/10 at 12:14am
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post #3 of 5
7/3/10 at 4:39am

1. That should be user adjustable.

 

2.  The V-dac will be able to convert the digital processing better than the in-built dac.

 

There should be no doubt in your mind that you are in a win win situation.  Your system is now able to exploit exotic cans.  In fact my desktop just died, this gives me an idea to build a new computer with a soundcard that can output DolbyHP digitally - so my dac can do the conversion for watching DVDs.

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post #4 of 5
7/3/10 at 9:59am
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Thanks for the insightful reply! I wonder how I will be able to configure it. Hmm. I guess by default it wouldn't do anything at all besides DAC, because the DAC is just a small part of what the x-fi soundcard does?
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7/4/10 at 3:08pm
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