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fzman
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« on: March 10, 2010, 04:14:42 pm »
What are you using, and what are you achieving - anybody done specific comparisons- I would be curious to know your results.  I'm using an asus stx, with outboard linear power supply, but am always looking to improve my sound.

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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 05:02:34 pm »
If it has to be spdif, the best you can achieve is AES or BNC output and to slave the card to an external DAC with a clock of undoubt quality.
the best card is the RME AES32 (available also pci-express) and for dac, i leave that to you, but it must have wordclock out.
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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 05:05:11 pm »
Here, here!

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