tublecane
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Man I am new and am so hoping I don't get blasted for this if it was asked before, but I tried searching quick but didn't find anything to quick and I'm at work so don't have all day to look.
Anyway I got here through a link looking for sound cards, and I haven't seen a forum where people seem to be so knowledgable about this stuff, so I'm going to ask my question and if it is in the wrong forum or been asked already I guess move it or whatever and sorry.
I am looking for the best sound card and setup for listening to mp3's sent to a reciever. I have a fairly old computer but it runs decent, and I have mostly downloaded mp3's so not the quality of whatever you guys choose to rip at I'm sure. I just want good quality sound, no hiss etc. right now I have a sound blaster pci 512 hooked up through RCA cables to a Marantz 5200. It has digital out but I've tried to do this to my AVI card that has co-ax digital and could never get dvd or any other digital signal to my reciever. If I get the AV-710 and hook up with optical, will this give me good sound for regular MP3's if I follow the basic set-up and mods found here? Would it really be that much of an improvement since I'm only playing most likely low quality mp3's? What is the best software to use while listening...i currently use wimamp and like the playlist etc and some of the plugin animations as i send them to my tv and it is good for parties etc.
Thanks
Anyway I got here through a link looking for sound cards, and I haven't seen a forum where people seem to be so knowledgable about this stuff, so I'm going to ask my question and if it is in the wrong forum or been asked already I guess move it or whatever and sorry.
I am looking for the best sound card and setup for listening to mp3's sent to a reciever. I have a fairly old computer but it runs decent, and I have mostly downloaded mp3's so not the quality of whatever you guys choose to rip at I'm sure. I just want good quality sound, no hiss etc. right now I have a sound blaster pci 512 hooked up through RCA cables to a Marantz 5200. It has digital out but I've tried to do this to my AVI card that has co-ax digital and could never get dvd or any other digital signal to my reciever. If I get the AV-710 and hook up with optical, will this give me good sound for regular MP3's if I follow the basic set-up and mods found here? Would it really be that much of an improvement since I'm only playing most likely low quality mp3's? What is the best software to use while listening...i currently use wimamp and like the playlist etc and some of the plugin animations as i send them to my tv and it is good for parties etc.
Thanks