Recent content by bcall

Maybe something like the Syba SD-DAC63116 for $46, and use the rest of the budget for some Philips SHP9500 and a V-Moda boom mic for $151~ total from Amazon. I think any kiddo would be happy with it.

Your Edifier speakers are powered speakers and have their own amp internally, so there's no need to supply a speaker amp for them. One benefit of soundcards I like is you can have both your speakers and headphones plugged in at the same time, and switch your output via Windows. Many lower/mid...

Taking a quick look through some measurements posted at reference-audio-analyzer.pro (Headphone Out port) I'd say it looks to be a very competent device: - Flat frequency response out to nearly 19.5KHz - Very low output impedance (1.1 Ohm) - Pretty good output power (216mw @ 100 Ohm, 92mW at...

That would be the proper way to do it with that setup, however you are at the mercy of the noise floor of your motherboard's mic-in/line-in. The D10's noise floor could very well be far below than what you're seeing on the graph, and is masked by the quality of your motherboard's ADC...

Quick question, was the laptop solely on battery power for these tests?