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From: Matthew Bloch <mattbee@eh.org>
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Subject: Re: Which HiFi sound-card to by?
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 04:05:33 +0000
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On Sat, 06 Feb 1999, you wrote:
>>As my CD-player is getting old, I'm planning to put all my CD's on a PC
>>with a HiFi sound-card (and a big HD :-). To that project I'm looking
>>for a hi-quality PCI-soundcard supported by ALSA; at least the mixer and
>>the PCM-device must be of HiFi-quality.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>
>There's no such thing as Hi-Fi sound-card. Sounds like an oxymoron to me...
>You have any idea of what goes on (electromagnetically) inside your pc?

To this end (I'm thinking of building an MP3 hi-fi separate based on a
cheap Linux box), are there any sound cards with digital outputs suitable for
feeding to hi-fi DAC boxes?

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Matthew       ( http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ )



