#Creative labs sound blaster recon 3d full#
#Creative labs sound blaster recon 3d Pc#

#Creative labs sound blaster recon 3d full#

I would like to see a new higher speed optical interface become a standard on hifi equipment so we can send full bit rate 24bit 384KHz+ 7.1 and higher without compression.Īnd make it easier than using multiple converters/interconnects The USB connection to the DAC is then isolated with high speed optical.

#Creative labs sound blaster recon 3d Pc#

The 2nd PC does nothing else than send the signal to its DAC to minimise noise within the PC affecting the timing of audio signal pulses. Some people go as far as using 2 PCs, one to play the music which feeds it to the 2nd PC via optical or network. There are many devices on the market to isolate PC USB by converting it to higher speed optical and back to USB but they cost a lot and can be messy. I really want a 0.3m lead but I'm not sure it will fit.Ĭonnecting a PC to an I2S input will need a longer lead and will be prone to more noise/interference.Ī PC might be too noisy to get the benefits. I use I2S between my USB/I2S converter and my DAC to improve USB input with a silver plated 0.5m HDMI cable. I2S needs as short an HDMI lead as possible with a certain structure of the cables for least jitter etc. You make an interesting point about the new card using HDMI. The Oppo 205 showed similar results to the 105. Throughout the tests HDMI in to the Oppo 105 sounded worse, a little brash, less detailed.īut there was no substitute when playing multichannel hi res music. The sound was smoother, an easier listen without losing detail.Ībove 24/96, USB was a bit better because of the detail but it wasnt quite a smooth. I found optical sounded best at 24/96 or lower. On the Oppo 105 I tested inputs of SPDIF RCA vs optical vs USB vs HDMI to see which sounded better. So that is an aside to demonstrate HDMI is a tricky transport for best quality. I didnt get to try HDMI out for audio because I wasnt using a receiver, I used the DACs inside the Oppos themselves.

Oppo knew noise/jitter on HDMI is detrimental even within their own machine playing audio and went to great lengths to minimise it on the Oppo 205 by using the 2nd HDMI out purely for audio with an almost blank video signal and many other optimisations. The problem with HDMI is the ground and power lines transfer noise, and noise from a PC is great indeed! I would like to add my experience using different inputs on my Oppo 105 and 205, and some other things I came across. Also we don't know if the mini HDMI on the AE-9 is using a special layout design, or is using the HDMI audio spec, or using the I2S spec. HDMI is still a logically replacement for Fiber optic spdif, they just have to get around to trying there hand at it again. The only reason it would work now is if they offered feature's that both GPU audio codec's and Onboard codec's didn't offer for HDMI audio. The only exception would be the socket's which doesn't have HDMI audio, Such as the X299. While they could try again with sound card's with HDMI on them in the place of fiber, but I don't know how well they would work now, even tho both GPU's and most motherboard's having HDMI audio. So Asus and auzentech ended up EOL years later. So most likely that the card's didn't do that well because of HDMI receivers affordably at the time, or it could be that the market wasn't ready for them yet. The price of HDMI audio receiver's wasn't cheap then. Since it was long ago, I don't think that onboard or Gpu's audio codec's supported it yet.

They came out at a time that blu ray audio was getting started and people was making HTPC's. Many year's ago Asus and Auzentech made sound card's that did replace the fiber optic with HDMI, I had one of them the Xonar HDAV 1.3.