onboard Realtek® ALC 887-VD2 or Esi Juli@ for spdif out to dac from htpc

[pistollero]

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

[Nick]

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