deez
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okay, this is likely kinda a stupid question. if you don't ask 'em, though, how can you ever hope to be less stupid?
why would you use an external DAC when a card like the av710 has a DAC(Wolfson WM8728 24/192 DAC for 2-channel mode) with pretty respectable SNR? my confusion is compounded further by the fact that the DAC in the soundcard is 24 bit, whereas it seems many DACs have only 16 bits of resolution.
i particularly ask this question for my own interests to some extent. however, i have a usb sound card with 24 bit A/D, D/A & SRC. it would seem pointless to me to attatch a DAC to spdif when the analog line outs on the soundcard are using the onboard, and seemingly pretty dang good soundin', DACs.
anyone enlighten me abt this puzzlement?
thx
why would you use an external DAC when a card like the av710 has a DAC(Wolfson WM8728 24/192 DAC for 2-channel mode) with pretty respectable SNR? my confusion is compounded further by the fact that the DAC in the soundcard is 24 bit, whereas it seems many DACs have only 16 bits of resolution.
i particularly ask this question for my own interests to some extent. however, i have a usb sound card with 24 bit A/D, D/A & SRC. it would seem pointless to me to attatch a DAC to spdif when the analog line outs on the soundcard are using the onboard, and seemingly pretty dang good soundin', DACs.
anyone enlighten me abt this puzzlement?