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[lpr]

Hello,

Anybody using ASIO w/SPDIF on an EPOX 8RDA3+ nforce2 board. I'm seriouly looking at this board for a future setup. My current Revo 7.1 doesn't support ASIO w/SPDIF, I was wondering if this board's NVIDIA SoundStorm would work great with Media Center and ASIO?

Thanks for your help.
lpr

[ncbluenet]

I'm using it with the asus a7n8x deluxe which i think has the same built in sound mcp-t.  ASIO works and sounds pretty daamn good with analouge out on just my basic stereo.  I haven't tried it with SPDIF yet because its my office computer.

I have the a7n8x-x with the plain realtek audio on my HTPC
downstairs hooked up with SPDIF coax to my good stereo.  I guess i'm not getting a very good signal down there.  I mistakenly thought digital (spdif) was straight digital from the source and would therefore be soundcard independant.  i still don't completely understand but it sounds like I need to get a better soundcard down there.  I heard revo 7.1 was great with analogue and asio.  so for 6 months i've been planning on getting one of those;  but maybe i should get a different card and do asio with spdif over an optical line or something.  My stereo is only a three year old 5.1 dts/dd onkyo so i wasn't sure if the revo 7.1 dac would be better.  

Anyway, for a value office system I highly recommend the MCP-T audio using ASO media center to  ($50) HK695 satelite computer speakers.  It sounds almost as good as my downstairs set up.

[thomaspf]

I was under the impression that nforce resamples to 48Khz. so you might bypass kmixer but you are probably not getting the quality of the M-Audio card.

Cheers

    Thomas

[lpr]

Hello,

According to the nforce2 drivers specs: "ASIO support for recording at sample rates other than 48kHz; lower and more predictable latency".

I'm asking around to see if it works well with SPDIF.

Take care,
lpr