[quote user="JohnDuncan"][quote user="al7478"]Chances are what im going to do is get a new desktop with an M- Audio card and
media centre.[/quote]Probably a better idea. You could get a 400 quid desktop and depending how noisy the components are, replace them with specialist 'quiet' ones - fan and hard drive, mainly - and have a dog's sound card, all for a lot less than a grand.
Alternatively, my iMac is utterly silent, and has an optical out - that and a Beresford DAC would come in round the grand mark, look cool, etc etc.
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Thanks. I'm bordering on ordering a pc from a particular local supplier - have told them what itll be used for - usual low-powered pc stuff and "hifi" source - and did mention that noise is an issue. However, the one i have at the moment is the quietest ive had, and, to my knowledge, has to specially quiet parts. I might justr go for it and see if its quiet enough, but id rather get it all right first time in one package. EDIT - should read "has NO specially quiet parts".