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Title: onboard Realtek® ALC 887-VD2 or Esi Juli@ for spdif out to dac from htpc Post by: pistollero on May 10, 2012, 01:54:58 pm Hello everyone, i need your opinion because i mounted a desktop pc only for music and i have xxhighend.
for now i´ve been feeding my lavry da 11 thru an optical audioquest cable from my Realtek® ALC 887-VD2 on board card. my question is: is it better to by a esi juli@ for spdif out do dac??? it improves the sound quality?? for me the sound now is very good... i´ve seen juli@´s mod etc... they claim improve on sound.... what are your opinions?? by the way a have an audiophilleo to but for me the sound of the audiophilleo is not so good (the timbre isn´t so natural, bass and treble extension but no mids at all simple does´nt sound ok to me) tks Title: Re: onboard Realtek® ALC 887-VD2 or Esi Juli@ for spdif out to dac from htpc Post by: Nick on May 10, 2012, 03:02:15 pm Pistorllero hi,
IMHO the Juli@ cards are an exceptionally good value way of getting a very high quality SPDIF feed out of a desktop. It should certainly should be a big improvement on the Realtek on board sound card you have been using. Beyond fitting a standard Juli@ card which should improve sound a lot, there are some very effective tweeks for the Juli@. Clock upgrades and the power rails on the card can improve an already very good performance. It may be worth contacting Peter as he may have a number of Juli@s with clock upgrades that have been removed from NOS1 DACs upgraded to Peters NOS USB interface. Best Nick |