idc:al7478:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002BZIZ04/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=A1AUCPBF2P18HS
it wasnt working for me so i made it clicky.
Anyone know how it differs from the STX?
The one user review of that soundcard rates it as a big improvement on the one you have in your signature al. I had wondered how your system worked as ypou seemed to have a DAC with the soundcard plugged into another DAC in the AVIs. I take it that the soundcard for you, is just a means of getting a digital signal to the AVI?
Cheers, i hadnt thought to look at the reviews. Someone reccommended it to me a few weeks back as it goes. Might well have it in my next machine which ill be getting in jan.
as to your question idc, and forgive me if its a fuller answer than you were looking for:
I first had a nad amp pluged into the 3.5mm connections on the back of my pc with on-board sound. Then i heard about the beresford and needed the right connections, so got the 2496 which many were raving about at the time. i listened to it on its own for a while before getting the beresford, and wasnt anywhere near as impressed as i thought i would be. So, really, i had the soundcard as a means of getting a signal to the beresford.
Now, i only use the dac in the AVIs. However, because the AVIs only have an optical connection and the 2496 a coax, i have to use a coax cable, one of
these, then an optical cable into the speakers. The adaptor, however, requires its own power supply, so id like to get rid of it when i get my new pc, hence my interest in that Asus card a few weeks ago, as it has an optical connection.
In theory, any old card should sound ok, as long as it has optical. however, i briefly used a cheap (£20) Trust card with an optical with the AVIs til someone talked me in to putting the 2496 back and using the adaptor. I
think i heard an improvement (cue twighlight zone music). So maybe im better off going with a superior card such as the Asus...
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