http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...05&Tpk=prelude
For overall best sound
Get a HT OMEGA if your going to use it for just music and movies.
For overall best sound
Get a HT OMEGA if your going to use it for just music and movies.
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Im going to be hooking up my ps3 through optical to the speakers and i will be playing games through the old pc
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Originally Posted by diligenthunter http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...05&Tpk=prelude For overall best sound Get a HT OMEGA if your going to use it for just music and movies. |
I would use the optical out on your board and send it to an optical in on the receiver. There's no point in doing multiple digital to analog audio conversions when all you really need is one
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To get DD+ HD or DTS Master Audio you have to use the ASUS video player. And yes, some functions of the card don't work yet because the drivers dont support them. This has been confirmed by ASUS.
Honestly if the sound coming out is digital there is no difference between onboard sound and a 500 dollar audio card, the signal is digital and is unchanged no matter what. The only difference is the sample rate, which WOULD make a difference if you use DD+ HD or DTS Master Audio on Blu-ray discs. But for regular audio, DVDs, etc the onboard sound can do 48KHz which is more than enough. CD Audio itself is only 44.1 KHz anyway.
One cool thing about this is it allows you to do HDMI video passthrough from a video card, which is kinda cool if your video card doesnt have an HDMI port, and/or doesnt support digital audio passthrough. That way all you need is an HDMI cable to your Receiver/TV.
But most cards nowadays that have HDMI have either a built in sound card with digital audio (Radeon 4870x2 I know has this for a fact, I'm using it to do HDMI out to my Onkyo TX-SR705 7.1 Receiver) or a digital audio passthrough you can run from your mobo's SPDIF header to the card and it will output the audio that way.
Originally Posted by bigdave069 looking at the ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3 Deluxe ive read a few "bad" reviews on newegg does anyone have this card and experience any problems? on x64 vista btw. also it says you cannot use some of the functions if you do not use the right programs is this correct? and are a review stated that some of the function that it advertises for the card is not available. but coming up in later driver updates. any points on that front? |
Honestly if the sound coming out is digital there is no difference between onboard sound and a 500 dollar audio card, the signal is digital and is unchanged no matter what. The only difference is the sample rate, which WOULD make a difference if you use DD+ HD or DTS Master Audio on Blu-ray discs. But for regular audio, DVDs, etc the onboard sound can do 48KHz which is more than enough. CD Audio itself is only 44.1 KHz anyway.
One cool thing about this is it allows you to do HDMI video passthrough from a video card, which is kinda cool if your video card doesnt have an HDMI port, and/or doesnt support digital audio passthrough. That way all you need is an HDMI cable to your Receiver/TV.
But most cards nowadays that have HDMI have either a built in sound card with digital audio (Radeon 4870x2 I know has this for a fact, I'm using it to do HDMI out to my Onkyo TX-SR705 7.1 Receiver) or a digital audio passthrough you can run from your mobo's SPDIF header to the card and it will output the audio that way.
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Thanks a lot good information there
Originally Posted by DJZeratul To get DD+ HD or DTS Master Audio you have to use the ASUS video player. And yes, some functions of the card don't work yet because the drivers dont support them. This has been confirmed by ASUS. Honestly if the sound coming out is digital there is no difference between onboard sound and a 500 dollar audio card, the signal is digital and is unchanged no matter what. The only difference is the sample rate, which WOULD make a difference if you use DD+ HD or DTS Master Audio on Blu-ray discs. But for regular audio, DVDs, etc the onboard sound can do 48KHz which is more than enough. CD Audio itself is only 44.1 KHz anyway. One cool thing about this is it allows you to do HDMI video passthrough from a video card, which is kinda cool if your video card doesnt have an HDMI port, and/or doesnt support digital audio passthrough. That way all you need is an HDMI cable to your Receiver/TV. But most cards nowadays that have HDMI have either a built in sound card with digital audio (Radeon 4870x2 I know has this for a fact, I'm using it to do HDMI out to my Onkyo TX-SR705 7.1 Receiver) or a digital audio passthrough you can run from your mobo's SPDIF header to the card and it will output the audio that way. |
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