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I've been listening to an interesting soundcard, the Chaintech AV-710, for the last two weeks. I think it sounds quite nice, it's 24 bit & 192khz capable, and it's only $24.50 on newegg.com . It's got an interesting undocumented feature that will route 2 channel stereo through a nice Wolfson WM8728 192KHZ DAC. For surround sound, it routes everything through the crappier VT1616, but for 2 channel headphone listening this isn't a problem.
While sound through the surround channels is crappy, the sound through the Wolfson DAC at 24 bit resolution and resampled to 96khz is very nice. Much better than my Onkyo CD changer in fact. While I'm sure it doesn't match up to more expensive cards RME PAD, etc..., it's quite a nice deal if you want something for music that's better than your integrated sound. If anyone else uses, or has heard, this card I'd be interested to hear your opinion. Who knows, it may be moddable too.
While sound through the surround channels is crappy, the sound through the Wolfson DAC at 24 bit resolution and resampled to 96khz is very nice. Much better than my Onkyo CD changer in fact. While I'm sure it doesn't match up to more expensive cards RME PAD, etc..., it's quite a nice deal if you want something for music that's better than your integrated sound. If anyone else uses, or has heard, this card I'd be interested to hear your opinion. Who knows, it may be moddable too.