Smithfield(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 8th May 2003, 22:59
I ve put all my music collection on a 200Gig drive, (if i had less music i d use an archos player or something but they seem to stop at 20gig) and was wondering whether anyone could recommend a good soundcard to use in the pc for best quality stereo left and right out to the amp ?
RE: Music MP3 To Seperates HIFI
clayts(Elite) posted this on Thursday, 8th May 2003, 23:11
Any soundcard will do it - you just need a 1 phono (line out on your PC soundcard) to 2 phono lead (left and right on your amplifier) :-)
Better still, get a cheap DVD player with .mp3 playback (virtually all cheap players these days) and hook that up to your amp instead.
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RE: Music MP3 To Seperates HIFI
RichardH(Elite) posted this on Friday, 9th May 2003, 08:28
The cheap DVD player isn`t a bad idea - if you wanted to, you could always add a decent DAC at a later stage to improve sound quality. Of course, it`sa all going to depend on how well recorded the MP3s are in the first place. We had a party at Christmas, and I burned a couple of CDs worth of MP3s, and just plugged a cheap CD/MP3 walkman into the hifi - sounded pretty good, too! Alternatively, consider the MAudio Revolution 7.1 at around £75 - OK it`s a 7 channel surround card, but it`s based on MAudio`s higher range stuff. I use the MAudio Delta 410 in my home cinema computer, and that produces excellent results through my Naim pre/power.
