funkstar;428077 Wrote: > But if you were woried about that, you wouldn't be spending £18 on a > little box from Maplin :)
Well, quite. The full history is this (long): I bought a new amp for my main system (Audiolab 8000P) which left me with a spare integrated amp (old Audiolab 8000A). I had access to an old pair of Mission 70 speakers so I thought I'd set up a low-fi system in my 'study' using my PC to get internet radio. I thought it would be nice to use Softsqueeze to emulate my real Squeezebox. The problem is that the analogue audio-out from my PC is very noisy both from the on-board audio and from the cheap PCI soundcard I bought a few years ago. I had a look in Maplin and saw the USB audio adaptor and thought it might have a quieter analogue output - it doesn't! I think the noise from the PC is finding it's way through the USB cable. Strangely, if I plug headphones into the adaptor there is no noise. This is the point at which I decided to get the Beresford DAC. As it happens, the cheap PCI card I bought a few years ago has digital out but I didn't want to use it because it has a naff GUI but I notice it does allow the sample rate to be set to 44.1kHz. Now whether this means there is no re-sampling of 44.1/16 audio I don't know. Anyway, I'm now using this card instead of the USB adaptor. I've just downloaded the most recent driver to see if the GUI has improved (I doubt it). -- Phileas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phileas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20367 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63913
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