[sektr]

I use a coaxial interconnect to connect my motherboard to my external DAC currently for audio. I'm wondering if I would see any benefit in purchasing an Auzentech Forte and used that as the transport with coaxial interconnect, or would it be redundant as I won't be using the gaming features of it?

So would it improve SQ at all or since it's just the transport would it make no difference?

 

[_Spanky_]

The only benefit I could think of is EAX effects. Other than that, you would just be routing the digital through another route, I don't see how that would change the audio but I'm sure some of the higher-ups would disagree.

 

[ROBSCIX]

Well some suggest that certain design types such as transformer coupling that would be found on the Forte would be prefered for digital output. Some say there is no difference... Not sure if that helps but many just say digital is digital.

 

[germanium]

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Originally Posted by ROBSCIX /img/forum/go_quote.gif Well some suggest that certain design types such as transformer coupling that would be found on the Forte would be prefered for digital output. Some say there is no difference... Not sure if that helps but many just say digital is digital.

Transformer coupling is preferable as it isolates the gound. That way you don't pass on any ground plane noise from the computer which can be quite noisy due to the burst nature of processing & I/O operations. The noise generated by the PC is all full of spikes as a result & this affects the ground plane as well. On my PC the jumps in current are as high as 80 amps. The only other way to isolate the ground plane noise is to use optical coupling such as toslink but that is prone to jitter more than coax.