insyte
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I have wanted to try how will USB compare to a Coax out from my PC to the DAC.
So I was finally able to get out of work and purchase a 3 pin adaptor from a guy in another local forum
I located the 3 pin spdif out and checked which was pin 1 from the manual. I attached it with no problems, closed the box and attached my digital RCA cable.
Unfortunately, even with numerous experimentations with alsamixer settings, I couldn't get it to work.
But I was more than determined to make my PC coax capable.
Fortunately, I looked at one of my old PCs and it had an old soundcard with an spdif out
After dusting it and shooing away the baby spiders on it (yes its in storage already). I attached it to my pc. Yes I was that desperate.
And then.......................
Made the card default, and changed the alsamixer settings...
And finally it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Im too tired to actually compare which input is better. But I did discover a problem. I tried to watch a video with mp3 audio and I got static. I tried playing an mp3 file and also got static. No problems with FLAC and videos with AAC audio. I wonder why this is so.
So was it worth the trouble???? , I don't know but the process was fun
So I was finally able to get out of work and purchase a 3 pin adaptor from a guy in another local forum
I located the 3 pin spdif out and checked which was pin 1 from the manual. I attached it with no problems, closed the box and attached my digital RCA cable.
Unfortunately, even with numerous experimentations with alsamixer settings, I couldn't get it to work.
But I was more than determined to make my PC coax capable.
Fortunately, I looked at one of my old PCs and it had an old soundcard with an spdif out
After dusting it and shooing away the baby spiders on it (yes its in storage already). I attached it to my pc. Yes I was that desperate.
And then.......................
Made the card default, and changed the alsamixer settings...
And finally it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
---------
Im too tired to actually compare which input is better. But I did discover a problem. I tried to watch a video with mp3 audio and I got static. I tried playing an mp3 file and also got static. No problems with FLAC and videos with AAC audio. I wonder why this is so.
So was it worth the trouble???? , I don't know but the process was fun