Waco wrote:What am I missing?
On my computers I always use the built-in laptop speakers or on my wife's desktop, the amazing soundbar Dell used to make (the old version of this from ~2008):
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/de ... polaris-pd
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Waco wrote:What am I missing?
just brew it! wrote:Will probably move my Xonar to the new Ryzen system once that build gets off the ground. I'll probably keep the old FX-8350 build around for a while though (I typically do this whenever I upgrade). It has a PCI slot, so I may pop my old Turtle Beach Santa Cruz or M-Audio Revolution in there so it still has decent audio.
Waco wrote:Maybe my ears have gotten worse over the years, but I've been happy enough with the onboard audio on my last few boards to ditch dedicated sound cards. They used to be utter garbage, but recent ones have very little crosstalk, a very low noise floor, plenty of dynamic range, good slew rates, etc.
I get if you're driving headphones you might want something a little more esoteric (for those big high impedance cans) but even those are fairly well served by onboard on recent boards.
What am I missing?
Chrispy_ wrote:Holy thread Necro, JBI! Seriously though, isn't internal audio dead now, from an audiophile perspective?
I was under the impression that anyone who cares about SNR has moved to an external USB DAC or HDMI receiver - and anyone who doesn't is more than happy with onboard crabbies.
The Egg wrote:I use SPDIF out from my onboard sound chip to my DAC, rather than the USB connection. I figure it has less CPU overhead than USB, though I don't have any evidence to prove this.
Waco wrote:What am I missing?
Chrispy_ wrote:
Holy thread Necro, JBI!
Waco wrote:You haven’t picked the right motherboards for a terrible audio experience. My ASRock Z390M Pro4 is one that convinced me to scrounge up a SoundBlaster to stick in a free PCIe slot. My previous 3 motherboards had acceptable on-board sound.I've been happy enough with the onboard audio on my last few boards to ditch dedicated sound cards. What am I missing?
JustAnEngineer wrote:You haven’t picked the right motherboards for a terrible audio experience.
JustAnEngineer wrote:Waco wrote:You haven’t picked the right motherboards for a terrible audio experience.I've been happy enough with the onboard audio on my last few boards to ditch dedicated sound cards. What am I missing?
I previously wrote:It's been more than a decade since I needed a legacy PCI slot.Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI Express offered PCIe in 2006. Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium made it ubiquitous and affordable in 2008. I haven't needed a PCI slot in the ten years since then.