optical out sound card for linux?

[Mike Kallies]

On 7/7/07, tleslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I just upgraded my Sennheiser HD570 to the new HD650 their best head
> phones.
>
> Now plugged into my SB live sound card,
> the high energy song mixed with huge bass cause the
> headphones to make that bass sound like someone
> hitting a shoe box with a hammer, its bad.
>
> I read that with highest end head phones, they are
> "extremely high impedance headphones"
> and they can suck large with cheap
> sound amps, and I am guessing a sound blaster
> card is just that.

Can you burn a CD and test the theory on a reasonable stereo
beforehand?  I'm curious if it's just the soundblaster (and PC sound
hardware in general) which sucks, or if the headphones really draw a
lot of juice.

Maybe you just need to solder a 0.33F capacitor to the card :-)

I bought $50 Sennhiser HD202 headphones a while back to block
background noise without any of the weirdness of noise canceling
headphones.  I run it off my Soundblaster, they're certainly not high
end headphones, but they're very clear.  The only problem I've had is
that it tends to sound punchy on the bass (supposedly because they're
closed-cell), and now I can hear all the clicking and crunching in bad
audio recordings and bad MP3s.

Is your collection all in FLAC or something?


-Mike
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