[technetium]

Hi Guys

Well I have really nice Dac on its way, and it uses a Coax input. I have a coax output on my motherboard (asus), will this sound great or do I need a soundcard with a coax outputin order to make it sound great (I have a onkyo pci se200, but I would prefer to sell it to fund the Dac)? Is there a difference between coax out on my motherboard or my soundcard?

 

[.Sup]

the only difference would be in DSP output. To put it simple if you like DSP effects and EAX and such then get a soundcard that has that. Your mobo should have Dolby effects which should do nicely for movies and you're already covered for music (stereo). So no additional card needed.

 

[matanoosh]

depending on your cards' quality, the resolution of your system and other factors there might be a difference, even though i suspect it would be a small one. my only reason for assuming that is the amount of times i assumed there would be no difference and actually heard one.
theoretically, there shouldn't be any. practically? i even noticed a difference once, when i connected my dac usb to my pci usb card , instead of my motherboard's onboard usb outputs. how strange is that?

 

[technetium]

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Originally Posted by matanoosh /img/forum/go_quote.gif depending on your cards' quality, the resolution of your system and other factors there might be a difference, even though i suspect it would be a small one. my only reason for assuming that is the amount of times i assumed there would be no difference and actually heard one. theoretically, there shouldn't be any. practically? i even noticed a difference once, when i connected my dac usb to my pci usb card , instead of my motherboard's onboard usb outputs. how strange is that?

Perhaps there is less static via your pci card, perhaps is has some shielding or filtering.

But yes I had expected this, but I haven´t been able to find any tests etc saying that all coax output are the same. And since I use asio4all with my foobar it should be the same, but again.. you know, I rather have more people saying it