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Ditto. It’s is hard to find non-wifi motherboards with toslink. All the cheap boards have neither. Most of the high end boards have both
I updated my computer this year, and didn't find anything without wifi either. So it seems it's a small tax you just have to pay now.
It's funny that apparently "high performance" DAC doesn't handle the common issue every single USB audio device have to worry about - noisy power. From the vendor page (on MODI 5, no idea which one author has). > SPECS THAT MATTER > Distortion: inaudible; 100-1000x lower than any transducer (speaker or headphone) you're using > Noise: inaudible; far below a typical headphone or speaker amp
The fact audiophiles talk about “DAC”s is really telling. Transparent digital-to-analogue conversion is a solved problem. Any computer or smartphone worth a damn has a DAC whose output is indistinguishable to the human ear from anything “better”. The truth is that DAC is not the problem… everything else in the analogue audio chain is. Amplifiers are messy analogue devices. Speakers and headphones are incredibly messy…
like where you talk about your phone you actually mean pocket computer, but it's too long to say.
I run into a similar problem. I have a power-hungry GPU (3080) and CPU (9800X3D). All my audio equipment was on the same UPS (and therefore outlet) as my gaming PC. The result is that any time a particularly stressful game would be open, I'd get buzzing in the speakers. (Especially if the framerate was at 360) If you ask audiophiles online they will swear up and down that a cheater plug, balanced cables, or optical i…
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> On the map it only buzzes when I move the cursor, interestingly enough Sounds like the game is doing more when the cursor moves around, they're probably checking for where the cursor is, and something is making the CPU/GPU do a bunch of extra work, which finally triggers the coil whine when the PSU is more heavily used. I've basically had the same issue with Nvidia cards since the 2080ti started doing coil whine as…
They connected the headphones to a wireless controller. The wireless controller doesn't have a GPU.
I run into a similar problem. I have a power-hungry GPU (3080) and CPU (9800X3D). All my audio equipment was on the same UPS (and therefore outlet) as my gaming PC. The result is that any time a particularly stressful game would be open, I'd get buzzing in the speakers. (Especially if the framerate was at 360) If you ask audiophiles online they will swear up and down that a cheater plug, balanced cables, or optical i…
isolation transformers are way cheaper than double conversion and should work as well? well they used to be cheaper, not sure what is going with prices these day, I remember this being around $100 a decade ago https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/146730/Tripp-Lite-500... https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/493958/Tripp-Lite-100...
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Quite a flashback. I switched to optical TOSLINK maybe about 20 years ago, which solved all those issues obviously. It's a bit weird how rare optical outs are on motherboards even today -- clearly less than half have them -- when it is such a useful interface. Just ordered a hat for my Raspberry Pi with optical out, with a plan to make that my main music streamer. Excited to see if that works out!
I wish Mini-TOSLINK[1] had been more successful. It's allows you to put an optical and electrical audio output on the same 3.5mm connector (i.e. headphone port), which is helpful for saving space on crowded panels. The trick is that your 3.5mm connector only needs to connect on the sides, so the end of the jack can be open for light to be transmitted. This was seen pretty frequently on laptops for a while, but I thin…
I run into a similar problem. I have a power-hungry GPU (3080) and CPU (9800X3D). All my audio equipment was on the same UPS (and therefore outlet) as my gaming PC. The result is that any time a particularly stressful game would be open, I'd get buzzing in the speakers. (Especially if the framerate was at 360) If you ask audiophiles online they will swear up and down that a cheater plug, balanced cables, or optical i…
No need for UPS, a good external usb soundcard with power supply will solve that problem. I have all connected to the the same power circuit and with a Elektron Digitakt as audio device and have zero noise. With audio devices powered by USB there is a lot of noise.
As for USB audio interfaces I really love what RME is doing with their TotalMix, but if you want bang for the buck Behringers UMC series is the place to be.
I run into a similar problem. I have a power-hungry GPU (3080) and CPU (9800X3D). All my audio equipment was on the same UPS (and therefore outlet) as my gaming PC. The result is that any time a particularly stressful game would be open, I'd get buzzing in the speakers. (Especially if the framerate was at 360) If you ask audiophiles online they will swear up and down that a cheater plug, balanced cables, or optical i…
Reminds me of my friend who has bought a shit load of 1.5v AA lithium batteries. The buck converters in those little bastards wreak havoc with every speaker around. His TV remote disconnects my Bluetooth headphones every time.
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I updated my computer this year, and didn't find anything without wifi either. So it seems it's a small tax you just have to pay now.
I've at least found that the wifi+Bluetooth chips seem to be significantly more robust than the standalone bt ones.