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<blockquote data-quote="giantjoebot" data-source="post: 219919" data-attributes="member: 26289"><p>Just found out that there is a Diamond card that might work perfect. It uses a cmedia chip, and there are some open source drivers that are suppose to make it work really good. Plus its only $30</p><p></p><p>here is a description of the open source drivers:</p><p></p><p>This project aims at developing drivers for C-Media 8738 / 8768 based soundcards, focusing on providing a compact, bloat-free and stable alternative to the official drivers in order to squeeze the most out of the hardware.</p><p></p><p>One of the key aspects is to support bitperfect lossless digital transmission through S/PDIF, meaning that there is no tampering with the signal whatsoever. Currently, this works for 16 bit sound streams with 44.1/48/88.2/96 kHz sample rate using DSound/WaveOut/kernel streaming.</p><p></p><p>Why should I use your driver?</p><p></p><p>If you have an amplifier/receiver with a digital input, it may be a good solution.</p><p>Nowadays most consumer market sound devices (Creative, AC97, HDA) alter the sound in one way or the other and thus induce a significant loss of quality - this renders them almost completely unusable for audiophile Hi-Fi enthusiasts. Not so with this driver: lossless bitperfect playback over the external digital ports is fully supported. Also, the sample rate is dynamically adjusted to the current playback source. This may sound simple, but even lots of "professional grade" soundcards lack such capabilities.</p><p>This driver is completely bloat-free (no annoying tray icon), small (100kB), fast (due to the lack of sound processing) and stable. Unlike the official drivers, it supports true 16 bit output and dts/AC3 passthrough. Also, it runs on all the major Windows flavors (including the Media Center Edition/MCE and 64 bit systems) and the source code is fully available. Thus it's especially well suited for HTPC usage.</p><p></p><p>So what do you guys think?</p><p></p><p>The only problems that I can find so far, is that it only sems to support 16bit, and thatI'm suppose to enable dts/AC3 passthrough, which I'm not sure if I can do that in Media Portal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="giantjoebot, post: 219919, member: 26289"] Just found out that there is a Diamond card that might work perfect. It uses a cmedia chip, and there are some open source drivers that are suppose to make it work really good. Plus its only $30 here is a description of the open source drivers: This project aims at developing drivers for C-Media 8738 / 8768 based soundcards, focusing on providing a compact, bloat-free and stable alternative to the official drivers in order to squeeze the most out of the hardware. One of the key aspects is to support bitperfect lossless digital transmission through S/PDIF, meaning that there is no tampering with the signal whatsoever. Currently, this works for 16 bit sound streams with 44.1/48/88.2/96 kHz sample rate using DSound/WaveOut/kernel streaming. Why should I use your driver? If you have an amplifier/receiver with a digital input, it may be a good solution. Nowadays most consumer market sound devices (Creative, AC97, HDA) alter the sound in one way or the other and thus induce a significant loss of quality - this renders them almost completely unusable for audiophile Hi-Fi enthusiasts. Not so with this driver: lossless bitperfect playback over the external digital ports is fully supported. Also, the sample rate is dynamically adjusted to the current playback source. This may sound simple, but even lots of "professional grade" soundcards lack such capabilities. This driver is completely bloat-free (no annoying tray icon), small (100kB), fast (due to the lack of sound processing) and stable. Unlike the official drivers, it supports true 16 bit output and dts/AC3 passthrough. Also, it runs on all the major Windows flavors (including the Media Center Edition/MCE and 64 bit systems) and the source code is fully available. Thus it's especially well suited for HTPC usage. So what do you guys think? The only problems that I can find so far, is that it only sems to support 16bit, and thatI'm suppose to enable dts/AC3 passthrough, which I'm not sure if I can do that in Media Portal. [/QUOTE]
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