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Subject: Re: snd_envy24{,ht} recording support?
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 08:52 +0100, Yamagi Burmeister wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:19:59 +0100
>> David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The need for high end add
>> in sound cards is much lower than 10 years ago.
>
> That's not true, if you want to replace your HiFi gear by a computer,
> you need a good sound card too, that anyway, will be less expensive than
> good HiFi gear. _All_ on-board devices are crap!

Well, digital data either works without corruption or doesn't work.

You can spend as much money on a sound card as you like, but if the
sound card is only outputting digital data over SPDIF to a separate
DAC, then there is no difference between the cheapest card and the
most expensive card, both would sound identical.

Cheers

Tom