With digital USB input, does this sound better than the DICE Silverline Duo?
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Audiovox is the "current" dice. The mediabridge simply offers more options that the duo. One of which is bluetooth phone.
340148
use the analog. This player has an excellent D/A converter.if you use the digital output, you will bypass this. Most receivers and amps do not have the same quality D/A converters built in.
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You can hook to computer through Midi. The DD-65 does not have a USB port. But the Midi should work great for you.
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Any recording software should do the trick, for example Sound Recorder integrated in windows. And one more thing, I may be mistaken but I think card supports only 16bit 44.1Khz through digital in.
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It all depends on what you're comparing it to. If your computer is a $35 RaspberryPi... the DAC in it is admittedly really cheap. You should definitely notice a difference. If you have a Mac, you probably won't notice much difference. I have a late 2009 Mac Mini and I notice a very slight difference. It sounds like greater channel separation and a little more dynamic range. Definitely need to use the RCA outs from the DAC rather than the headphone output. I bought it to experiment with and it's fun to say that I run a separate DAC.
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I have emailed with Roland on how to use the 2 channels that are digital only. They say people interface it with a digital recorder and or adigital based mixer. Roland should have just put in 4 analog input rather than this lesser strategy of only 2 audio ins/out.
1959806
I own this. The V90 is a much better delivery platform for USB and Digital. It is a true DAC. It was also added to the Sterophile List of recommended components.
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No, because it only a midi controller. If you using a laptop with sound then yes
904353
I'm on a Mac so no. However, Peachtree support was great when I had a question. The DAC offers such amazing sound for the price so any short-lived driver hurdles would be worth it.
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I have not used the receiver with usb input. Phono and CD input plus receiver provide all of my quality listening. Old school input I know.
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The correct answer is the sound quality will be exactly the same if you do this properly. All computer sound cards stink. The proper way to do computer audio is USB to a DAC like a Benchmark DAC1 or DAC2, Peachtree, DacMagic, or a similar unit. Depending on your level of audiophilia and associated equipment you may or may not hear a difference in sound quality between different USB cables (yes, really) and software. I've found JRiver to sound the best and you should hear a difference between .flac and .wav, again depending on the quality of the associated audio equipment. Good luck.
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I tested it on Garageband, Ableton on windows 7 and it gave me Awesome results. Ubisoft made the best of two worlds. A little latency but nothing serious.
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The rca inputs are the better choice. This would be the higher sampling rate for the recording input. The digital recording software will do the job of any cleanup necessary and mp3 compression.
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I have played a CD in the portable DV/CD. it sounds fine for me. I don't know if you might want a louder sound, I hear it mainly during the night & don't need a louder sound, that's why I got a portable one. it's what you prefer. the sound is not as loud as some people might want.
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Your board has Soundblaster cinema onboard. If you get the right software for that, it will be fine. It has a very decent onboard amp that is capable of driving headphones, and you won't find a significant difference in quality here. If you are getting any sort of hum, whine, static, or other noise when using the analog outs, you will probably get that with the Asus card also. In that case, you can use the optical digital out and use a decent DAC like the Fiio D3 or E3.
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I have it hooked up thru MIDI (not USB) as there are no USB ports on this. I'm using the DD-65 to play the sounds from my computer. No lag. Works great.
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Only if you want the audio to have all sorts of buzz and noise on it... For the cheapest available "acceptable" quality (for casual use) interface, I would suggest the Behringer UCA202. It's not great, but at least it's relatively clean-sounding, especially compared to this.