optical out sound card for linux?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Jul 9 21:15:09 UTC 2007


On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 09:44:27AM -0400, tleslie wrote:
> 320 cbr mp3

I would have thought vbr tended to give better quality.  My stuff is all
flac though.

> i have been thinking can it be anything else? but there is so many
> google hits
> with HD650 (or HD60) and head phone amps and so many people swearing by 
> having to have them.
> 
> And also the songs in question sound fine on my HD570's which are not as
> high imped. So it does seem to point to the sound card failing on 
> generating the energy to drive them.

Quite likely.  The sb live was meant to drive powered speakers, and
cheap headphones, not high power headphones.

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