Anders
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I have upgraded my computer to an EMU 1212M sound card. I am very satisfied with it and it is fun, but my only earlier experience is my previous standard card (built-in on motherboard) which I hardly used. The EMU sounds good with my EarMax Pro amplifier and Grado RS-1 (equalised to get rid of the upper midrange peaks).
I am now trying some software and wonder about where things happen in this chain of software and hardware. The quality of mp3's seems obviously to depend on the quality of the ripping software and the bitrate. When that's done it's done. But what happens after? Does the software player (Winamp, Windows Media) etc. process the sound (except equalisation etc. that you may have set yourself)? Or must the audio stream be converted in some way before it enters the soundcard/DAC?
I am now trying some software and wonder about where things happen in this chain of software and hardware. The quality of mp3's seems obviously to depend on the quality of the ripping software and the bitrate. When that's done it's done. But what happens after? Does the software player (Winamp, Windows Media) etc. process the sound (except equalisation etc. that you may have set yourself)? Or must the audio stream be converted in some way before it enters the soundcard/DAC?