TonyTripleA
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Well thanks to Becomethemould I'm now the proud owner of a Chaintech AV710 soundcard (thanks Peter). It was a dream to install, simply ran the install disk to setup the drivers and then updated using the windows XP driver updater.
After installation I just went to control panel, selected sound devices and made the Chaintech the default card. Easy.
Now the fun part. You know that moment when you pull out your best cans (in my case Music Series Pros). Then, with anticipation you plug in, start an application and wait for that first sound.... and then, to your surprise that first sound from a familiar album is actually better than you expected. Far better in fact. My 224 kHz AAC encoded itunes music sounds fantastic beyond my belief. Not quite CD quality out of my NAD, but heck, not far behind.
I was particularly impressed with the clarity and clear bass. True the very upper highs have that "compressed" audio tell-tale sound, but heck, this is med/high quality itunes AAC not lossless or WAV. Terrific.
Now I guess the next thing to do is to try foobar, but you know, with 25 Gbytes of music already encoded I feel just a bit reticent.
Am I missing much?
TonyAAA
After installation I just went to control panel, selected sound devices and made the Chaintech the default card. Easy.
Now the fun part. You know that moment when you pull out your best cans (in my case Music Series Pros). Then, with anticipation you plug in, start an application and wait for that first sound.... and then, to your surprise that first sound from a familiar album is actually better than you expected. Far better in fact. My 224 kHz AAC encoded itunes music sounds fantastic beyond my belief. Not quite CD quality out of my NAD, but heck, not far behind.
I was particularly impressed with the clarity and clear bass. True the very upper highs have that "compressed" audio tell-tale sound, but heck, this is med/high quality itunes AAC not lossless or WAV. Terrific.
Now I guess the next thing to do is to try foobar, but you know, with 25 Gbytes of music already encoded I feel just a bit reticent.
Am I missing much?
TonyAAA