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Originally Posted by NVRENUF
do these statements make sense.
"if you decide to upgrade your sound card to a decent card, perhaps an Asus Xonar DX or similar, and then use the analogue outputs you may get an increase in quality"
"Because the assumption (and it's not an unreasonable one) is that the aftermarket soundcard - which will provide the signal, will be better than the soundcard in your Z5500 unit. Provided it can accept analogue.
You need to get past the idea digital is 'better' - it's not. It's just 1s and 0s and data. The conversion from digital to analogue (so your speakers can play it - because all speakers are analogue) is the important thing, as is the quality of speakers. "
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Yes Tim - the above is very correct unless your using a high end amplifier with exceptional DA convertors. The DA conversion is where the "sound" is recreated from the "1 and 0s". The advantage of digital is that the opportunity for transimission loss / colouring is diminished as the audio signal is not an analogue wave it's a square wave. The recreation of the sound is by the DA convertors.
From Wikipedia:
A DAC converts an abstract finite-precision number (usually a fixed-point binary number) into a concrete physical quantity (e.g., a voltage or a pressure). In particular, DACs are often used to convert finite-precision time series data to a continually varying physical signal.