Sorry if this has been discussed to death... I just ordered a DA-131 and my two choices are: Short run of Coaxial (Belden 1694A) and 15ft of Analog RCA cables or 12 ft of Coaxial and short run of RCAs (2 ft). Running the signal from my M-Audio USB 24/96 thru the DAC to my...

I have a Dell 1705 with a Radeon x1400 and it will not get along with my USB Sound Card(s). If I disable Hardware Acceleration for the display driver, all is well, but with Acceleration on I get horrible cracks/pops and drop outs. Happens in all applications (foobar/wmp etc), when ever the...