evillamer
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back in the Y2K era, VIA drivers/chipset/network(all of them) were pretty buggy and slow. However nowadays VIA network chipset is on par with its Intel counterparts for most desktop usage.
Although the master 7 VIA audio chipset can be trance back to M-audio/midi man envy24 chipset which wasn't designed by VIA.
Cmedia was good all along, as they had many sound cards based on the chipset and were pretty stable(most asus used cmedia)
USB audio in its early infancy wasnt really good and was prone to jitter/noise and dropouts. Only a few got it right, wavelength audio/centrance.
It wasn't until the advent of usb 2.0 and asynchronous mode that improved things quite signifcantly.
For my case, the hydra x via i2s sounds even better than using Ibasso dx90 as coax transport.
The thing is spdif is prone to jitter from the source/cable as the clock and audio data share the same data transmission. While i2s has dedicated clock signaling(both source and dac)which eliminates most of the jitter.
Although the master 7 VIA audio chipset can be trance back to M-audio/midi man envy24 chipset which wasn't designed by VIA.
Cmedia was good all along, as they had many sound cards based on the chipset and were pretty stable(most asus used cmedia)
USB audio in its early infancy wasnt really good and was prone to jitter/noise and dropouts. Only a few got it right, wavelength audio/centrance.
It wasn't until the advent of usb 2.0 and asynchronous mode that improved things quite signifcantly.
For my case, the hydra x via i2s sounds even better than using Ibasso dx90 as coax transport.
The thing is spdif is prone to jitter from the source/cable as the clock and audio data share the same data transmission. While i2s has dedicated clock signaling(both source and dac)which eliminates most of the jitter.