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Hello,
I'm building a dedicated hifi media box and looking for a sound card tag can output 88.2/176Khz via optical out - apparently the onboard to slink on my Gigabyte Mobo doesn't do it...
 
Ideally I'd love to have an ASIO driver if possible. 
 
Thanks in advance!

 

[jiiteepee]

Infrasonic quartet by specs: http://www.infra-sonic.com/

 

[Reckless95]

Hello,
I'm building a dedicated hifi media box and looking for a sound card tag can output 88.2/176Khz via optical out - apparently the onboard to slink on my Gigabyte Mobo doesn't do it...

Ideally I'd love to have an ASIO driver if possible. 

Thanks in advance!

How much are you looking to spend? I just bought a Creative Soundblaster ZxR and I'm very pleased. It also encodes digital out.

 

[RoundRound]

How much are you looking to spend? I just bought a Creative Soundblaster ZxR and I'm very pleased. It also encodes digital out.

Thanks Mate,
it's a very expensive card (ideally I'd like to spend less than £100) and I'm still wary of Creative's drivers...

 

[Reckless95]

Thanks Mate,
it's a very expensive card (ideally I'd like to spend less than £100) and I'm still wary of Creative's drivers...

Im running windows 8.1. No hassle. I had read people have had issues but I didn't. I recently reinstalled windows aswell to get rid of all the junk I didn't need anymore. But I'm actually very pleased with it. Now with this one having the high SNR I prefer it over Dolby Headphone. I was going to get the Asus STX I believe, but I wanted to try something new instead of Dolby Headphone again. I got a little excited inside as it came

 

[RoundRound]

Thanks mate,
this looks like an overkill...
 
All I want is an optical out that supports 88.2 as well... I'm doing bit streaming so the card doesn't have to do anything really, no SNR or DAC comes into question... Maybe I'm over analysing this and should stick with the Onboard Audio...

 

[kazcou]

Gigabyte motherboard like all new one use realtek audio hd chipset and they are not compatible with  88 or 176 khz
for optical output they are limited to 96khz
 
you can try a musiland m-sword digital time if you don't need analogue output
or a audiotrack prodigy hd2
 
they are both compatible with what you are asking
asio + compatible with 88 / 176khz sample rate

 

[RoundRound]

Thanks Mate,
Just a correction the Real Tech chips can do 24/192 - it's just the 88.2/176 they don't... Really annoying as the spec on those chips says they can do it - it's the bloody driver that doesn't let them...
I wonder if there is some registry hack that may enable it?

 

[kazcou]

you can try this first, I think
http://www.head-fi.org/t/550087/realtek-alc892-does-not-play-88-2khz-files/30
 
And for asio driver you can try asio4all

 

[PurpleAngel]

  Thanks mate,
this looks like an overkill...
 
All I want is an optical out that supports 88.2 as well... I'm doing bit streaming so the card doesn't have to do anything really, no SNR or DAC comes into question... Maybe I'm over analysing this and should stick with the Onboard Audio...

 
I would guess(?) if you had software that supported 88.2k and set the S/PDIF optical to bypass the sound card, you could output 88.2 thru optical, but I'm just making a big guess.

 

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I would guess(?) if you had software that supported 88.2k and set the S/PDIF optical to bypass the sound card, you could output 88.2 thru optical, but I'm just making a big guess.

Thanks Mate,
that certainly sounds interesting, how would I go about doing that? I'm using Jriver as at the player and I have to chose a driver there - the driver belongs to the card... won't let me do 88.2... etc...
 
Any ideas are welcome! 

 

[PurpleAngel]

  Thanks Mate,
that certainly sounds interesting, how would I go about doing that? I'm using Jriver as at the player and I have to chose a driver there - the driver belongs to the card... won't let me do 88.2... etc...
 
Any ideas are welcome! 

 
I usually like to say to try Foorbar2000 audio player, it's free software that has dozen and dozens of component add-ons.
http://www.foobar2000.org/

 

[kraken2109]

What is the rest of the signal chain? And why do you want 88.2kHz?

 

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  What is the rest of the signal chain? And why do you want 88.2kHz?

 
Thanks,
I'm connecting the PC via optical to a Chord Hugo DAC, while it can handle any sample rate ideally I'd like to be able not to down-sample 88.2Khz music - the Qobuz Masters series are at that res...
 
Thanks,

 

[kraken2109]

It's weird that your onboard doesn't since both my laptop and desktop onboard seem to be able to.
Personally I would just downsample to 44.1 since it will sound the same.