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RandyT:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on August 11, 2021, 04:00:21 pm --- I listen to all of my music, movies, and games, on my PCs output to the amp.
The PC is where I spend the most time... so why would I want inferior sound on it?

And when I saw people paying +$300 for a dedicated PC surround system, with those
tiny inferior eco speakers? I chuckled.

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Finally... I will say that I tried a specific sound card that had Digital Audio output.
Maybe its the age of my amp.. but I can tell you.. that Digital fiber OP, sounded 90% worse
than pure Analog. The dynamic range was cut down Drastically... making the sound flat
and tinny. I tinkered with it for a bit, and then reverted back to pure analog.

Maybe digital works better via RCA connectors... And or, maybe with a newer amp.
But I seem to doubt it. According to what I learned about these systems... is that they are
extremely limited, and lacking.

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Been there, done almost all of that (never really got into the headphones thing.) Tracker/MOD music was the first thing on computers worthy of piping through a decent audio system. Still have my 64s and Amigas and have been using PCs since color and sound were optional features.

Never owned a full-surround "PC" speaker system. When I went to surround on the PC, it was a 5.1 system, albeit a cheaper one, intended for HT and of course, an appropriate SB card which could feed it the signals to do it. I'm sure that there were/are good "PC" surround systems, but the value usually isn't there.

Audio quality is going to depend heavily on the circuitry in both the sound card and the amp. Notice I didn't say "digital". The audio from a PC exists in the digital realm, just like a CD. It's not analog until the circuitry in the audio processor creates it for output on those jacks. Unless you had a high-end sound card, the circuitry for doing this will usually be much better in a decent amplifier. Remote processing also better isolates signals, by getting them away from the RF nightmare that is the typical PC box. There are some bandwidth limitations with fiber-optic cables with anything over 5.1, but they are especially good for the aforementioned isolation.

But all of this is academic. Sound is very subjective, as no two individuals possess exactly the same receptor wetware. I've heard "audiophile" systems which sound like utter crap to me, especially when the cost is considered. They are usually tailored to the specific application and environment of interest to the specific user, which means that they tend to fall on their face when venturing too far outside of those parameters.

With audio, the "jack of all trades, master of none" approach is where I put my money. If it sounds good to you, turn it up until it doesn't and if it's still not loud enough before you get to that point, upgrade until it is. Anything beyond that is usually just expensive fluff :)

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Osirus23 on August 12, 2021, 12:15:27 am ---I'm getting back in to PC audio after years of just having stereo speakers. Going to rearrange my setup to have 4 channel surround. I'll have my AVR do a phantom center channel using the 2 fronts.

It really feels like a dying niche which sucks. If you search for PC audio stuff now 95% of the stuff you'll find is headphones, headphones, headphones.

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Well that's because desktops in general are becoming extinct for everything except streaming and streamers obviously use headphones so they don't have a nasty echo in their stream. I like a big scary tower to keep the normies away from my pc personally. I've got the tools to stream at this point but I lack the motivation. I'm afraid it would make gaming too much like work.

BadMouth:
I have Xonar DG/DGX cards in both my cab and desktop. I could not get the sound I was after without them.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: Osirus23 on August 12, 2021, 12:15:27 am ---I'm getting back in to PC audio after years of just having stereo speakers. Going to rearrange my setup to have 4 channel surround.

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Track down the original quadraphonic mix of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
It is one of the best sounding recordings I've ever heard. I spent a lot of time trying to tune my systems to live up to hearing that album on an original quadraphonic system only to find out later that it was a completely different mix by a different engineer. Aside from the original quadrophonic vinyl, it was only released as part of some gigantic box set.

Osirus23:
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