ramicio
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Poorly designed electronics pick up radio stations. If you are listening to the radio in your car you deal with radio anomalies. The noise isn't from the car itself.
Poorly designed electronics pick up radio stations. If you are listening to the radio in your car you deal with radio anomalies. The noise isn't from the car itself.
Quote:if you are using an outboard amp changing the analog path on your sound card shouldnt make a difference.
I would also agree with going with an outboard dac.
Can you recommend any below 300€ external DAC that can outperform D2, ST/STX SQ ? (I mean going coax from my actual D2)
If you are considering using the ST with opamps as a dac and an amp its an interesting idea, but I think the bursons would benefit froma more robust power circuit. Again you run into the electrical issues of an onboard soundcard. I suppose you could shield it but the power source is still sub-optimal.
Ok...and to be sincere, I don´t know if it´s worth the hassle. Thanks about the advice on the power source, thought a solid 12v-18a rail to the ST could be enough.
Im not sure of the implementation of the dac circuit on the ST but you should look at both the chip, power source, bias, and analog stage of the dac output.
Hope this helps,
Dave
Thanks for the help!
On my old laptop (Dell Inspiron 8600) the noise levels were really high, using a stationary integrated amp that was sensitive to picking up background noise, I could hear the cursor moving across the screen, the modem sounds and other internals of my computer.
On my new laptop (Sony Vaio CW15FX) the noise level is thankfully really low, even using that amp, I can't pick up much noise from it at all, which is the way it should be.
I'm curious if I can upgrade the soundcard to something better though, and if it's worth upgrading soundcards in laptops?