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PC audio advice

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Folly

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Any good bang for buck solutions to get the best audio out of my PC?

Looking for decent amp and speaker set up that will produce loud and clear audio with meaty bass. I have zero experience with PC audio, so no idea if I'll need to get a sound-card. Will be mainly for playing digital music, but may want to hook up CD and vinyl in the future.

Any advice appreciated.
 
Let's start with the basics. How much $$ you wanna spend?

Kanto has a lot of good options in the $200 - $1000 range.

I'd run optical out of the mobo into a dac/integrated amp/receiver instead of buying a sound card.
 
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Mad Maxx said:
Let's start with the basics. How much $$ you wanna spend?

Kanto has a lot of good options in the $200 - $1000 range.

I'd run optical out of the mobo into a dac/integrated amp/receiver instead of buying a sound card.
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Happy to spend around £300.
 
Folly said:
Any good bang for buck solutions to get the best audio out of my PC?
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Use HDMI audio or s/pdif; I think s/pdif is a bit out of style ... you're unlikely to have a port on the rear i/o panel, but you might have a header. Buy a receiver and some big floor speakers at a second hand shop. I dunno what second hand shops are like in poundtown, but with some patience and a little luck, I think $100 would do you fine around here. I think a lot of newer receivers don't have inputs to work with lowlevel turntable outs, but probably modern turntables have their own amp to line level or you can pop something in the middle anyway?
 
his board actually does have onboard spdif, surprisingly. so either with at least a stereo av receiver and a 2.1 speaker setup.
 
I use a receiver, but if you only have a few devices any little dac with a few inputs will work fine. Spending a bit more might get you better quality, but the big things are whether it has the inputs you need and what codec it uses. Do your research on that and you should be good. After that it's whatever bonus features you want.

Later if you want to power bigger speakers you can add a power amp, but for powered or small passive speakers a 50-100w dac/amp should be plenty.
 
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