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There’s a huge gap in quality between most onboard DACs and externals. It’s not necessarily because the onboard is worse at C-ing the Ds to the As, but because
by function_seven 8y ago
There’s a huge gap in quality between most onboard DACs and externals. It’s not necessarily because the onboard is worse at C-ing the Ds to the As, but because they’re not isolated from the noisy electronics that share the power supply.
My laptop emits different squeals when I scroll a window, for example.
- Obi_Juan_Kenobi 8y agoThat's just shitty grounding. Try putting one of those 3-to-2 prong adapters on your charging cable and you'll see right away.
- TylerE 8y agoNope, occurs even just on battery.
- toast0 8y agoShitty circuit layout maybe, but it's much easier to move the dac outside the noisy box than to fix the cicuit layout. Most computers today can manage a digital audio output, either through HDMI, spdif from the sound card, or via USB. Keeping the analog path away from noise is sensible in a way that 96kHz and oxygen free cables are not.
- sneak 8y agoThat’s not the DAC.
- function_seven 8y agoRight, but it makes the onboard DAC useless. So sidestepping that and shipping the bits out to something else is worth doing.