[Aellius]

Hiya guys, I'm really confused about this one. I've read a lot around these forums and I really appreciate all your efforts for helping people getting their music up to the best possible level of enjoyment

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I've always listened to music through my 50% Creative speakers and my onboard soundcard. In the last 2 weeks I've gathered info about headphones and soundcards and bought an ATH-AD700 along with an ASUS Xonar DX soundcard and I'm pretty amazed by it

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My dumb question is... Is there any difference between front panel and rear panel output quality of a soundcard like this Xonar? I'm asking because I'd prefer to use my headphones front panel, so I could turn on the speakers if I'm not alone watching a movie or something. Thanks in advance!

 

[steven_1026]

I also have a Xonar DX and when I use headphones through the front panel I can hear interference and some noise from my computer. So I plug my headphones into the rear output and use the front panel for my crappy speakers. This way I don't hear any noise from my speakers as well.

 

[Bojamijams]

The problem is that the wires going from the card to the front pannel are

1) Cheap quality

2) very crappily insulated

3) absorb a lot of EMI noise thats given off by your cards, power supply, RAM, CPU, etc. which is why you hear that noise