Must say I'm delighted with it. This is the first system I put together - five years ago there weren't many appropriate options for getting music from your computer to your speakers but the Stello fit the bill, it wasn't ludicrously expensive, sound is great, up-sampler is never off to be honest...

Quick closure to this thread... Went back to first principles and look up the exact Audigy card I had and see what the specs were and match those to the specs for the Stello DAC. I pulled the cover off the Dell to get the card details and saw that the spdif connection was part of the...

! Right, thanks. I will have a look into it (don't take that literally). Rightly or wrongly, I'd assumed that since it has the optical toslink (JIS F05) connector that it was outputting light...   I'll go and educate myself and come back with results. I need a run of more than 5m in my...

Hi,   I have been using USB to send music to my Stello DAC100 (with great success) for the past few years but want to switch over to s/pdif optical cable. I have a Dell computer (Studio 8100) with a Sound Blaster Audigy sound card that appears to be arranged specifically for the Dell.  ...