Can the Auzentech prelude do digital and analog simultaneously?

Anyone know? I wanted to be able to switch between a receiver & speakers over a digital spdif connection and have a separate tube amp hooked up to analog for dedicated headphone use.

I have an AV-710 right now that can do both if I switch to 'Hi Sample Rate Mode' but then it resamples DTS & DD instead of letting the receiver decode the raw streams. Basically making the receiver useless since the soundcard is resampling everything.

Basically I wanted to have a pure digital connection to my receiver (no resampling, no DSP or anything. Raw DTS & DD streams from DVDs.) and a pure analog connection to go straight to the tubeamp for dedicated headphone use. I wanted both to be able to work simultaneously so I can switch between speakers and headphones without having to go through any complex procedure. Again I wanted to clarify that I don't want any resampling over digital. I want to receiver to decode a raw signal by itself without any resampling from the soundcard.

Anyone know if the Auzentech Prelude can do this or if any sound card can do this?


I know I could buy a dac and split the digital connection but I just can't justify $500-$1000 for one.

I dont know if the Prelude resamples DVD audio to put it out over optical or not, but I can tell you that the analog out works at the same time as the optical out, just a simple volume adjustment needed to work one or the other, no switching or anything. Check the DDLive thread for more findings on this stuff.

Thanks. Wouldn't need to adjust volume even because I'd be using a separate headphone amp. I'll most likely get this card to replace my av-710 if I can get a good deal on an amp.

Someone told me that analog + digital don't work together in Vista for some reason. Can anyone confirm that?

Someone told me that analog + digital don't work together in Vista for some reason. Can anyone confirm that?

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My Prelude doesn't output the same audio data simultaneously in Vista, but my Elite Pro did. With my Prelude I can set application X to output over "Speakers" (analog) and application Y to output over S/PDIF which does work simultaneously as expected (I hear only application X when using analog and I can only hear application Y when using S/PDIF). However, on my Elite Pro if I have applications only outputting to "Speakers", the Elite Pro would then output that audio on both S/PDIF and analog (the Prelude does not do this, at least for me). I should note that if one enables Dolby Digital Live on the Prelude, then it obviously does output the same audio data simultaneously (but I don't think this is what you're looking for).