areinike
Head-Fier
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I recently received the E11 portable amp which works great with my iPod. Now I'm working on the PC side now that the iPod side sounds awesome, the PC side sounds like arse. One thing in particular, when starting to play some music - especially noticeable with music that starts with bass hits, it's distorted, like fart sounding distorted.
Just to make sure it wasn't my cheap HA400 headphone amp, I plugged the iPod into the HA400 and it sounded fine, no distortion. So my questions is, and the reason why I bought the HA400 was to not have to use another sound card. The RealTek claims 24/192 and the Xonar DG does 24/96 - that and I don't need a headphone amp - but I guess that's the question.
Do I buy something like the FiiO D3 DAC and bypass the onboard sound card DAC using the optical (digital) out from the motherboard to the DAC and go from there? Or should I venture into replacing the sound card with the lower sampling, but highly regarded Xonar DG. Mind you I might use the rig for recording in the near future. (No, I won't be using the HA400 - that's being replaced by the Schiit Mugni when it arrives
Yep.
Just to make sure it wasn't my cheap HA400 headphone amp, I plugged the iPod into the HA400 and it sounded fine, no distortion. So my questions is, and the reason why I bought the HA400 was to not have to use another sound card. The RealTek claims 24/192 and the Xonar DG does 24/96 - that and I don't need a headphone amp - but I guess that's the question.
Do I buy something like the FiiO D3 DAC and bypass the onboard sound card DAC using the optical (digital) out from the motherboard to the DAC and go from there? Or should I venture into replacing the sound card with the lower sampling, but highly regarded Xonar DG. Mind you I might use the rig for recording in the near future. (No, I won't be using the HA400 - that's being replaced by the Schiit Mugni when it arrives
Yep.