Porksoda
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SO, I am making a DIY amp.
I'm working out of my college's lab, which has plenty of equipment for building and testing laboratory grade amplifiers, transducers, etc.
I'm working on my enclosure with one of the techs and complaining how my 5.1 speakers take up all the line outs on my Audigy 2, and that I was thinking of putting a DAC in my amp so I could use the digital out but was worried about the cost.
He says "Oh, try this" and reaches into his drawer and pulls out three $100 sigle-channel laboratory grade 24-bit DACs that I can just have for my own entertainment. NATURALLY I can't pass this up.
At any rate, my question is this: How dependant is the audio quality of the digital out on the source? For instance if I take SPDIF out from an Audigy 2 and a really top-end source and feed it into the same DAC and amp how similar would the sound be? I guess my reasoning is that you are encoding the same signal, and since it is digital it can't really distort or anything unless you are getting bit errors, which I wouldn't think would be a problem.
Thanks
EDIT: Assuming that both the top-end source and the Audigy 2 are playing the same format media, and a good player (foobar) is being used on the computer
I'm working out of my college's lab, which has plenty of equipment for building and testing laboratory grade amplifiers, transducers, etc.
I'm working on my enclosure with one of the techs and complaining how my 5.1 speakers take up all the line outs on my Audigy 2, and that I was thinking of putting a DAC in my amp so I could use the digital out but was worried about the cost.
He says "Oh, try this" and reaches into his drawer and pulls out three $100 sigle-channel laboratory grade 24-bit DACs that I can just have for my own entertainment. NATURALLY I can't pass this up.
At any rate, my question is this: How dependant is the audio quality of the digital out on the source? For instance if I take SPDIF out from an Audigy 2 and a really top-end source and feed it into the same DAC and amp how similar would the sound be? I guess my reasoning is that you are encoding the same signal, and since it is digital it can't really distort or anything unless you are getting bit errors, which I wouldn't think would be a problem.
Thanks
EDIT: Assuming that both the top-end source and the Audigy 2 are playing the same format media, and a good player (foobar) is being used on the computer