oneinchside
Openly Baffled
I was wondering...
The audio coming out of my computer(s) sound card(s) are... less than inspiring. It's kind of frustrating that the best audio source I have right now is a $29 MSRP Magnavox DVD player, model MWD 200G. I have a ton of music (mp3's from all over-- old cds now gone, rapsody, iTunes, etc) that actually sound better if I (un?) rip them to an audio cd and play them on the DVD player. It works, but it's a PITA.
I guess the weak link is my sound card, whether on the MB or a SB Live! from ages ago. I know if I drop $100 I can get a better sound card, it's just that I don't happen to have $100 to spend on it, much less $100 x 5 PCs in the house. It just seems to me that there must be a bunch of units with decent converters that can be hacked into service, that are currently being overlooked much like most tube amps were back in the '70s.
Every computer CD/DVD player I've seen has a 2 channel analog audio out... I'm guessing that some of this stuff sounds pretty good-- now the question is how to get the digital signal from the PC into and out of some other DAC...
I wonder what the DAC equivalent of Fisher console tube amp is?
The audio coming out of my computer(s) sound card(s) are... less than inspiring. It's kind of frustrating that the best audio source I have right now is a $29 MSRP Magnavox DVD player, model MWD 200G. I have a ton of music (mp3's from all over-- old cds now gone, rapsody, iTunes, etc) that actually sound better if I (un?) rip them to an audio cd and play them on the DVD player. It works, but it's a PITA.
I guess the weak link is my sound card, whether on the MB or a SB Live! from ages ago. I know if I drop $100 I can get a better sound card, it's just that I don't happen to have $100 to spend on it, much less $100 x 5 PCs in the house. It just seems to me that there must be a bunch of units with decent converters that can be hacked into service, that are currently being overlooked much like most tube amps were back in the '70s.
Every computer CD/DVD player I've seen has a 2 channel analog audio out... I'm guessing that some of this stuff sounds pretty good-- now the question is how to get the digital signal from the PC into and out of some other DAC...
I wonder what the DAC equivalent of Fisher console tube amp is?