companyja
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Hey guys, first post here, sorry if I'm posting in the wrong section,
I recently got a Fiio K5 Pro, I wanted a capable dac/amp mostly for future upgrades but it does drive my AKG K240 perfectly, I'm very happy with it. However, when used with USB, whenever my PC does something intensive like gaming, it has excessive crackling/popping which I imagine would be USB buffer overflow. I can't seem to avoid it using any port, my lone 3.1 port seems least affected but even that gets horrible to listen to in games.
So until I replace my motherboard which shouldn't be anytime soon, I decided to try and use optical in which should be the same really, maybe + some occasional jitter. Now my question is, does the source of the optical signal matter at all? I already put my old Creative X-Fi Titanium in another PC and I wonder if there would be any use at all bringing it back, installing it and routing through that instead of the onboard audio. Luckily my motherboard has SPDIF out, within realtek's HD codec whatever in windows. I imagine it bypasses the onboard DAC and amp altogether, but will realtek mess with the signal in any way? In other words, does it just pass the already resampled WDM signal, or does it do some resampling of its own? I know the creative x-fi titanium has something called "bit-matched output" which just really disables all the effects and EQ and doesn't let you control anything other than the volume, so I'd be a bit more comfortable routing it through that IF it mattered at all. Oh and just to be sure, I tested the headphone out of the motherboard and it's clean of electrical interference, just doesn't go loud and colors the sound quite a bit, I suspect the output impedance is rather high.
Cheers mates!
I recently got a Fiio K5 Pro, I wanted a capable dac/amp mostly for future upgrades but it does drive my AKG K240 perfectly, I'm very happy with it. However, when used with USB, whenever my PC does something intensive like gaming, it has excessive crackling/popping which I imagine would be USB buffer overflow. I can't seem to avoid it using any port, my lone 3.1 port seems least affected but even that gets horrible to listen to in games.
So until I replace my motherboard which shouldn't be anytime soon, I decided to try and use optical in which should be the same really, maybe + some occasional jitter. Now my question is, does the source of the optical signal matter at all? I already put my old Creative X-Fi Titanium in another PC and I wonder if there would be any use at all bringing it back, installing it and routing through that instead of the onboard audio. Luckily my motherboard has SPDIF out, within realtek's HD codec whatever in windows. I imagine it bypasses the onboard DAC and amp altogether, but will realtek mess with the signal in any way? In other words, does it just pass the already resampled WDM signal, or does it do some resampling of its own? I know the creative x-fi titanium has something called "bit-matched output" which just really disables all the effects and EQ and doesn't let you control anything other than the volume, so I'd be a bit more comfortable routing it through that IF it mattered at all. Oh and just to be sure, I tested the headphone out of the motherboard and it's clean of electrical interference, just doesn't go loud and colors the sound quite a bit, I suspect the output impedance is rather high.
Cheers mates!