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<blockquote data-quote="grubi" data-source="post: 254144" data-attributes="member: 52476">But again that's not the only point. If your soundcard or it's driver is not capable of handling 44.1 khz without resampling you will never get auiophile output.@madad:why do you want to use two different amps for 5.1 and audio. There are good amps out there which fullfill both requirenments. E.g I'm using one of the top Denon amps and they have a &quot;pure audio&quot; mode where all internal processing units will be bypassed.As soundcard I'm using a simple C-Media 8738 / 8768 based soundcard which you will get for about 20 EUR. The reason is that it is capable of outputting 44.1 khz without resampling if you use the open source driver esp. made for bitperfect playback (you can find it <a href="http://code.google.com/p/cmediadrivers/" target="_blank">here</a>). It is also capable to switch between 44.1 or 48 khz automatically which not every soudcard/driver combo can do. This is necessary to switch between audio and 5.1 without user intervention.HTHgrubi.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="grubi, post: 254144, member: 52476"] But again that's not the only point. If your soundcard or it's driver is not capable of handling 44.1 khz without resampling you will never get auiophile output. @madad: why do you want to use two different amps for 5.1 and audio. There are good amps out there which fullfill both requirenments. E.g I'm using one of the top Denon amps and they have a "pure audio" mode where all internal processing units will be bypassed. As soundcard I'm using a simple C-Media 8738 / 8768 based soundcard which you will get for about 20 EUR. The reason is that it is capable of outputting 44.1 khz without resampling if you use the open source driver esp. made for bitperfect playback (you can find it [URL="http://code.google.com/p/cmediadrivers/"]here[/URL]). It is also capable to switch between 44.1 or 48 khz automatically which not every soudcard/driver combo can do. This is necessary to switch between audio and 5.1 without user intervention. HTH grubi. [/QUOTE]

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