USB Soundcards - worth the while to look at?

[Paul R]

The PC we use is electrically very noise- most especially so on the coax connector coming out of the built in sound card. Indeed, even heavily shielded Coax picks up some stray voltages.

 

I was looking around to see if I could find a cheap way to get optical output from the PC, and ran across a Turtle Beach $25 USB attached "audio adapter" that, just like a modern Mac, puts out analog or TOSLink signals.

 

Does anyone think it would be worth the $25, just to see what comes out of the beastie?

 

-Paul

 

http://www.turtlebeach.com/AudioAdvantageMicroII/tabid/734/Default.aspx

 

 

[Mr.C]

It might be worth it, depends on your dac's reduction of jitter. I would also check your motherboard for spdif headers that you can use for toslink.