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[mlucitt]

My sound card has a DAC, can I join the cool club? The PC card is the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS. I run my XM Radio (with the optical mod) into the Sound Blaster card. This way I can record the tracks in PCM mode 44 kHz, 16 bit, 1411 kHz bit rate. My 1TB HDD is full of music. The sound card plays in bypass mode straight through to a 2.1 amplifier I built myself, 2X20W stereo and 60W subwoofer. The sound out of my very efficient JBL Control 1 Plus pair and 10" sub is quite good for the room size. Or, I can switch the output of the sound card to a 250 mW headphone amp I built with matched discrete components. That amp feeds my 600 Ohm Sennheiser HD 600 headphones.

 

[laatsch55]

Way ahead of me in the digital dept Dude.

 

[mlucitt]

You'll be there one day soon, it pulls you in...

 

[laatsch55]

Of that I have no doubt....

 

[orange]

My sound card has a DAC, can I join the cool club? The PC card is the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS. I run my XM Radio (with the optical mod) into the Sound Blaster card. This way I can record the tracks in PCM mode 44 kHz, 16 bit, 1411 kHz bit rate. My 1TB HDD is full of music. The sound card plays in bypass mode straight through to a 2.1 amplifier I built myself, 2X20W stereo and 60W subwoofer. The sound out of my very efficient JBL Control 1 Plus pair and 10" sub is quite good for the room size. Or, I can switch the output of the sound card to a 250 mW headphone amp I built with matched discrete components. That amp feeds my 600 Ohm Sennheiser HD 600 headphones.

Same card here, they laugh at it, those kids on TH that don't know a sound card from an elephant with bronchitis.

I have the last laugh. My last post killed the thread!

 

[mlucitt]

I cannot find any mods for that SB Audigy 2 ZS card on the 'net. And those "kids" do try and mod everything to see if they can get a better sound, usually destroying a perfectly good sound card in the process. That tells me two things: 1. The card is basically good the way it is. 2. They don't really know much about electronics, because they don't analyze the design, or look at the (mostly nonexistent) schematics. They just replicate mods from other cards by pulling perfectly adequate parts and replacing them with junk, defeating components because they don't think they help the sound, or altering the design because it looks cool.