Quote: Until there is some kind of software freak out and your monitors are blasting on full volume...

I use a spl 2control to control the volume of my dynaudio bm5a mk2. http://spl.info/de/produkte/monitor-controller/2control/videos.html It's kinda on the expensive side, but it also gives you two headphone ports and the attentuator in it, has a really good channel balance all through the range.

Listening to music from a fascist who went to prison for murder paired with a pink pony, now I have seen everything.

Quote: agreed.   You should also wait a few weeks with your purchase if time is not of essence. Due to the flood in Thailand the price for hard drives is pretty high right now.    

That doesn't sound really encouraging. I'm still wondering if the spdif output of my alc892 onboard chip is really bitperfect using wasapi.

Thanks, that's what I thought.

I recently switched to foobar using the wasapi plugin. I'm feeding my dacmagic through optical output and I was wondering in order to get bitperfect output, what I have to choose as a output format in foobar? I have of course mostly 16bit lossless files but also some in 24bit . I was...

anyone? is it common that the hiface overload the input stage of DACs?

I'm planing on buying the hiface and connect it to the dacmagic. Has anyone experience with this combination? Can the dacmagic handle the higher output of the hiface?  

nevermind.....

I have a question concerning my DACMagic... I can't seem to control the output (xlr) of that device. I recently bought the spl 2 control but i can't even get past 7.30-8.00 o clock before it gets too loud. Even if I switch on the dim mod. I'm using Dynaudio bm5a mk2 speaker and I also...

I would be afraid to damage the subwoofer while sitting there

Not old enough for a credit card? How about buying cds in the store? You can rip them lossless or mp3 or any other format you want

well beside the jitter issue I think the DAC will do a much better job upsampling the signal than the driver of your onboard sound

once again.  TOSlink is a digital bitstream connection.  the  external creative soundcard has a 3.5mm headphone jack where you can plug in your ad700.