NickMDal
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Hi. My wife and I love classical. We have ripped our CD collection losslessly (by WMP) saved to PC and listen mostly through computer, frequently by a pair of Grados.
Will a DAC improve our sound if I listen to the lossless copies as they are?
We bought a DacMagic Plus (using 2.0 driver) thinking so but are not seeing much of a difference. I use foobar with the ASIO and kernel plugins. The unit only reports 44,1 sampling and so it seems playback shouldn't be hugely different. Should the sampling rate by the unit be showing higher? Foobar has a sampling rate adjuster that does not affect the DacMagic sampling rate.
The computer motherboards all claim to have HD audio components, though not sure if that is reflected in quality of digital to analog conversion (without the DAC). Do those chips make 44.1 sound quite good with good headphones?
Do the CDs need to be reripped at a higher sampling rate in order to get the DacMagic to sample at a higher rate? Thanks!
Will a DAC improve our sound if I listen to the lossless copies as they are?
We bought a DacMagic Plus (using 2.0 driver) thinking so but are not seeing much of a difference. I use foobar with the ASIO and kernel plugins. The unit only reports 44,1 sampling and so it seems playback shouldn't be hugely different. Should the sampling rate by the unit be showing higher? Foobar has a sampling rate adjuster that does not affect the DacMagic sampling rate.
The computer motherboards all claim to have HD audio components, though not sure if that is reflected in quality of digital to analog conversion (without the DAC). Do those chips make 44.1 sound quite good with good headphones?
Do the CDs need to be reripped at a higher sampling rate in order to get the DacMagic to sample at a higher rate? Thanks!