Hi And thanks for reading this post.
I have a gigabyte ga-ma785gpm-ud2h mobo, which has a xonar d2x soundcard in the pci-e slot.
The audio coaxial out of the xonar goes to an external audiolab m-dac.
The m-dac is then hooked up to a quad 405-3 amp (£3k) and b&w nautilus speakers (£6k)
When i hook up the audiolab m-dac directly to the mobo's usb port the sound is not good.
But when i hook up the m-dac to the coaxial out of the xonar d2x the sound is a lot better.
Do you know why this may be.
The m-dac won best dac under £1k for four years in a row in what hi-fi magazine, i thought hooking that up to the mobo's usb port and taking zeros and ones directly would give the best sound quality, but this has not turned out to be the case.
Is the mobo at fault, for some reason it is not passing the audio information to the dac very well.
Or is it the xonar doing something better than the mobo can do.
Many thanks.
I have a gigabyte ga-ma785gpm-ud2h mobo, which has a xonar d2x soundcard in the pci-e slot.
The audio coaxial out of the xonar goes to an external audiolab m-dac.
The m-dac is then hooked up to a quad 405-3 amp (£3k) and b&w nautilus speakers (£6k)
When i hook up the audiolab m-dac directly to the mobo's usb port the sound is not good.
But when i hook up the m-dac to the coaxial out of the xonar d2x the sound is a lot better.
Do you know why this may be.
The m-dac won best dac under £1k for four years in a row in what hi-fi magazine, i thought hooking that up to the mobo's usb port and taking zeros and ones directly would give the best sound quality, but this has not turned out to be the case.
Is the mobo at fault, for some reason it is not passing the audio information to the dac very well.
Or is it the xonar doing something better than the mobo can do.
Many thanks.