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[TOS #8] From: Xonar Setup Help

Quote from: jayess on
Kohlrabi thanks for the info. Tell me if I am understanding this properly: basically all sound is analog in its origin, so if I use the analog outputs of the Xonar STX then I am using it's DAC to feed the receiver. And I run the receiver in pure direct, then I am not altering that sound. But if I don't run the receiver in pure direct I would then be running the sound through it's DAC as well, is that correct? So does it come to using whichever one has the best DAC for the best sound?


One needs to know more about your receiver.  If it is a stereo receiver, chances are it doesn't have its own DAC (unless it has digital inputs), so you have to feed it an analog signal.  If it's a home theater receiver, in may.  Not sure what "pure direct" is.  It may be an input that bypasses the preamp circuits.  If you are giving your receiver an analog signal, I'd first try just using the AUX input, or another line-level input.

By the way, I have been happily playing uncompressed .wav files through Foobar for a couple of years now.  Ripped my CD collection to my hard drive using Exact Audio Copy (freeware), making the .wav file and a cue sheet.  Metadata (and cover art) comes from online databases.  Or you can get cover art elsewhere.  Easy, and sounds great.  (Perhaps I shouldn't say this here, but I thought these copies sounded noticably better than copies made with Foobar's CD copy capability [although the process can be much slower]).

[TOS #8] From: Xonar Setup Help

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Quote from: Nordfinn on
Perhaps I shouldn't say this here

No, you shouldn’t. TOS #8 exists to prevent the spread of unsubstantiated claims such as this. In case you somehow didn’t realise, it adds insult to injury when you violate a rule whilst acknowledging that you are probably doing so.

As you appear to be familiar with foobar2000, there is no reason that you could not have used its easy ABXing facility to compare both sets of rips, a process that almost certainly would have revealed the perceived differences to have been purely imaginary.

Also unsubstantiated is any potentially implied advantage of uncompressed audio over its losslessly compressed equivalent.