Meat Plow wrote:

I have Realtek HD audio on this MSI board with NForce chipset. I think
the audio is perfect and surely wouldn't discredit Realtek, one of the
oldest manufactures of onboard and peripheral electronics including
networking and audio devices.

Sure, there may be some shining examples I haven't come across. The fact
that your chipset is HD must mean they took some care on that one ;-)

As much as possible, if I'm using an onboard sound chipset I try and
find an S/PDIF output and use an outboard DAC connected to that. I find
some sources of music that ye get via broadband really benefits from
that. Nice, non-flabby and crisp ;-)

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Adrian C