Nikhil Wrote: > Has anyone used the digital output of a higher end (24 bit) audio card > to feed an external HDCD compatible DAC? In such cases will the HDCD > logo on the extrnal DAC light up along with the WMP HDCD logo, or is > the HDCD information only processed when D/A conversion takes place > within the computer? If you rip your HDCDs to lossless files that produce data streams bit-for-bit identical to the original data, the digital output of a 16-bit audio card should be properly decoded by an external HDCD-compatible DAC. You don't need a 24-bit card, since the original data on the CD is only 16-bits (even though it can represent up to 20-bits of data through the HDCD dynamic range compression/expansion).
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