ihavenoidea
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Hello everyone, new member and a newbie in general here. I've been reading here a lot past couple of weeks or so and I've purchased a JDS Labs Atom to drive my HD 600s (which I have not received yet) because of the great review it's got here. I've done some more reading and concluded that it might not be the best idea to connect the Atom amp to the "Line-Out/ Front Speaker Out" jack of my Z170A Gaming M5 motherboard as I initially planned. I'm still not sure if it is actually a bad idea or if it's just fine, to be honest. I wanted to avoid the possible negative effects of double amping(amplifying noise/distortion etc.) , i.e. plugging the atom amp to an already amplified output, the line-out in this case. Some people say it's a non-issue while some others say it's bad, so I'm not sure who is right. I also don't know how well my mobo's DAC performs in general, as there's no measurements available for it.
So, I decided to look into external DACs, but at this point I've already spent much more than I'd initially planned, so I am looking for a cheap DAC that will not "ruin" the sound I'll be getting from my expensive setup(pretty expensive for me), weakest in the chain and all that. I am thinking of getting the Fiio D3 (D03K) aka Taishan, as it seems to have performed quite well in 44.1khz in Amir's review. Although, I have a worry. It seems to have performed poorly in 48khz, which seems to be the format for all movies, a lot of games and TV shows etc. which are all things I'll be using this setup for as well as listening to music. So, I've done some googling and could not find any answer to this question:
What is the result of using 44.1khz mode for things that have 48khz audio?
Depending on the answer of the question above: Would I be better off using the 48khz mode for movies/games instead, even if the D3 performs much worse in that sample rate.
I'm also still wondering if I would just be better off with my motherboard audio with the Atom amp instead of a cheap DAC like the D3.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks
So, I decided to look into external DACs, but at this point I've already spent much more than I'd initially planned, so I am looking for a cheap DAC that will not "ruin" the sound I'll be getting from my expensive setup(pretty expensive for me), weakest in the chain and all that. I am thinking of getting the Fiio D3 (D03K) aka Taishan, as it seems to have performed quite well in 44.1khz in Amir's review. Although, I have a worry. It seems to have performed poorly in 48khz, which seems to be the format for all movies, a lot of games and TV shows etc. which are all things I'll be using this setup for as well as listening to music. So, I've done some googling and could not find any answer to this question:
What is the result of using 44.1khz mode for things that have 48khz audio?
Depending on the answer of the question above: Would I be better off using the 48khz mode for movies/games instead, even if the D3 performs much worse in that sample rate.
I'm also still wondering if I would just be better off with my motherboard audio with the Atom amp instead of a cheap DAC like the D3.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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