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    actually... talking to much about it won;t do too much good. you can choose wether to believe me or not, it's totally up to you. but the only thing that can prove it, is by demonstrating the difference between onboard and a decent soundcard yourself. i've stumbled across too many ppl saying...
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    yes you could do that... but still the sound quality resulted from of each brand of CD-Rom used for that transformation will vary. try it.... i;ve done that also
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    take a look at this for X-Fi RAM thingy
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    i was answering other post.... as for your post, look a bit lower.
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    no.... to tell you the truth all X-Fi has ram.... but only Fatal1ty and Elite pro has X-Ram. Xtreme music has 2-4 mb of ram.
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    no. components are still needed, if not, there will be totally no use of onboard soundcard also. as i have stated, doing digital will narrow the task of the soundcard, that means releasing much of the task usually used by analog. but that doesn't mean it doesn't need resources, it does...
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    as for Analog, Digital preferance.... for those who are playing with hi-end audiophile music, they should know better that using Analog will be better from digital. they provide more neutral sound than digital. but there's a big sound quality and price gap between mediocre Analog setup and...
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    yes... it still has to be processed by certain components on the soundcard right? while onboard has generic components, many great add-in soundcard has audiophile grade components for that. by audiophile grade, i mean those stuff created solely for audio stuff. beside, if onboard soundcard...
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    i would not call Z5500 as a top notch speakers since there are clearly better setup with bookshelf speaker and amplifiers out there. but for the budget and features it offers, some ppl just don't have enough knowledge or budget to set their own bookshelf speakers and amplifiers that will cost...
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    ok now we move on to spdif or digital connections. first we all have to know that by using a digital connection, the task of the soundcard will be narrowed to extracting the data from the media and then passing it through. yes, it won't be bothered by converting digital to analog signal...
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    hahahaha... quite the contrary, on other forum i disagree with chanster most of the time. and i can prove that:lol:
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    hi guys, i'm joining this forum just to answer this typical question, as requested by my dear friend Chanster. i may not know much about audio, but atleast i know the basics, but i think i can answer this matter technically. and i have been helping out on other audio forum as well for quite...

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