Emmett62
New Head-Fier
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planar magnetic desktop speakers ?
thats wicked
thats wicked
I am using a set of 2.1 Monsoon Planar Media 9 Speakers from 2005, not sure if this counts as old or ancient but I still love their sound even if they have to be perfectly aligned for each ear. I gave up on sound cards in 2006 and have been listening through headphones for the last 9 years.http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/Groovy_GI/Office/P1010129_zpsatjwma6a.jpg
If your looking for a very high quality analog sound source from the digital music files on your computer, the SOTA path for that today is by using an outboard dac, etc.
Kool, Hold onto them, they have to be the last surviving pair. Most let the smoke out in the first few weeks. JK
The problem with soundcards other than Emi noise or other interferences, IME is Power, you just limited to pc power supply for whatever good it is, it's just a switching psu,
Get a mediocre Dac, put a beefy linear psu, and yo'll get the max out of that Dac,
The latest digital amplifiers with incorporeted Dac are very good, you can try,
Nad D3020, is a good choice..
I've never understood the audiophile aversion to high quality, regulated, switching PSUs - which is exactly what most modern computers offer these days. This isn't really saying we should all use PCs or all not use PCs, but I just don't get the aversion to PCs as "a very bad thing" - 20 or 30 years ago that argument made some sense, but today it just seems quaint.
I'm old, my HT system is old. Only thing relatively new is my laptop. I wanted to get music from it to the old home theatre system and saw the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD external sound card as a solution. For the most part, it's used as a USB to S/PDIF converter. I also use it to digitize LP's. At any rate, this device, which was purchased sometime back in 2012, provides the functionality I was expecting; and I have been so satisfied with it that my shopping for such things is over. I think this external sound card is still sold today for about $89.00. I also purchased an Airport Express which I use via Airport to play music from iPhone and iPad to home theatre. It works wonderfully too. That's to say, each of these devices supports a high quality listening experience from iTunes player.
Lots of audiophile equipment can not handle input power noise properly. This includes megabuck ones too.
I'm old, my HT system is old. Only thing relatively new is my laptop. I wanted to get music from it to the old home theatre system and saw the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD external sound card as a solution. For the most part, it's used as a USB to S/PDIF converter. I also use it to digitize LP's. At any rate, this device, which was purchased sometime back in 2012, provides the functionality I was expecting; and I have been so satisfied with it that my shopping for such things is over. I think this external sound card is still sold today for about $89.00. I also purchased an Airport Express which I use via Airport to play music from iPhone and iPad to home theatre. It works wonderfully too. That's to say, each of these devices supports a high quality listening experience from iTunes player.