Bjerknes

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Mar 16, 2004
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The red-head in the middle looks like he is setting himself up for some proper self-stroking.

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I drink the vodka, that means I can play for da Russian national! Or da Polish national when I drink potato wodka! RUS you SHUSH!
 

Nzoric

Grazie Mirko
Jan 16, 2011
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dacs are better, better sound quality
So your advice to casual music listeners is to get a DAC and a headphone amp just to listen to some tunes after work? Get a medium range mbox soundcard which has both a DAC, ADC and an built in amp and just enjoy the music. The quality will be much better than any internal soundcard in a laptop and you're free from setting up a chain.
 

ZoSo

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Jul 11, 2011
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So your advice to casual music listeners is to get a DAC and a headphone amp just to listen to some tunes after work? Get a medium range mbox soundcard which has both a DAC, ADC and an built in amp and just enjoy the music. The quality will be much better than any internal soundcard in a laptop and you're free from setting up a chain.
Those low end audio interfaces don't really have great sound quality, I have one and use it for recording guitar, even the motherboard DAC in my PC is better in terms of sound output.

Something like a FiiO E10K is a great inexpensive choice, and much more suited for the task.
 

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