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Do I need a sound card?

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steve2237

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I'm in the process of picking components my new core 2 duo build, and was planning on buying a x-fi xtrememusic card. My main concern is the sound quality of music and videos, since I do not game much. I listen through two bookshelf speakers, powered by a panny xr-55 reciever. The motherboard i'm getting (Asus P5B) has an S/PDIF out, which got me thinking, will buying the x-fi and using it's digital output give me any improvement in sound quality? Or should I just use the S/PDIF on my mobo?
 
If you're using the digital out of any soundcard and you're having the receiver and not the soundcard decode whatever it is you're using (DD,DTS,etc) than there will be no difference.

If the card is using its DACs, then there will be a difference in audible quality between it and say onboard sound.
 
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