1984_C10
Active Member
For quite a while i've been trying to extract decent audio from my PC in order to listen my lossless files and Tidal.
The machine itself is not so fancy, i built it myself and the basic configuration goes like this:
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Killer (with ASRock's "Purity Audio" tweeked Realtek ALC1150 codec and Toslink jack for DTS Connect up to 5.1 channels)
CPU: Xeon E3-1220V3
GPU: Nvidia GTX 970
Thing is, i'm going to update my aging receiver (Denon AVR-1602), but i'm not sure how i should extract audio from this machine. I tried 3 different methods in the past, the first was a P2 to RCA stereo, but that has proved to be terrible, the Toslink connection wasn't much better, and the last was to set the video card to reproduce sound via HDMI to my TV and then use the Toslink on the TV to connect in the receiver (still in use, average quality and buggy as hell).
None of those methods has proved to be the best.
I was thinking about getting a Cambridge DACMagic Plus or something similar in order to get audio from the PC via USB, but i never tested USB audio before.
Surround sound (5.1) loss is not an issue, since my system in only stereo.
The machine itself is not so fancy, i built it myself and the basic configuration goes like this:
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Killer (with ASRock's "Purity Audio" tweeked Realtek ALC1150 codec and Toslink jack for DTS Connect up to 5.1 channels)
CPU: Xeon E3-1220V3
GPU: Nvidia GTX 970
Thing is, i'm going to update my aging receiver (Denon AVR-1602), but i'm not sure how i should extract audio from this machine. I tried 3 different methods in the past, the first was a P2 to RCA stereo, but that has proved to be terrible, the Toslink connection wasn't much better, and the last was to set the video card to reproduce sound via HDMI to my TV and then use the Toslink on the TV to connect in the receiver (still in use, average quality and buggy as hell).
None of those methods has proved to be the best.
I was thinking about getting a Cambridge DACMagic Plus or something similar in order to get audio from the PC via USB, but i never tested USB audio before.
Surround sound (5.1) loss is not an issue, since my system in only stereo.