I know that this has been asked a little before but I have not been in the mix of this for a while. I would like to build a truly great audiophile pc for use on stereo only for the time being. I was going to use a transport and benchmark dac-1 but have now rethought this and am checking into doing a pc setup.
I know how to get a pc to be quiet enough so that is not an issue. I currently run an amd 2600 processor with an asus A7N8X-E DLX mobo and 512mb of 2100 ddr memory.
I am looking at some of the offerings from Lynx Studio ie. L22 and TWO for a soundcard. I would most likely switch to Seagate Barracuda HD's as these are supposed to be pretty darned good. What else do I need to look at?
Has anyone had any experience with some of the higher end cards that I should be leaning towards??

Thanks,
wasser

 Re: An audiophile PC? - markle58 04:06:47 06/30/05 (0)
 Re: An audiophile PC? - tavegia@bellsouth.net 18:13:53 02/19/05 (0)
 Re: An audiophile PC? - recruitingcommunists@hotmail.com 17:39:23 10/07/04 (0)

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 Re: An audiophile PC? - markle58 04:06:47 06/30/05 (0)
 Re: An audiophile PC? - tavegia@bellsouth.net 18:13:53 02/19/05 (0)
 Re: An audiophile PC? - recruitingcommunists@hotmail.com 17:39:23 10/07/04 (0)

1) look into a Creative sound blaster EXTERNAL soundcard. Make sure to get one that can record & playback 24 bit, 192 Khz sounds....
you will want an external model as to keep it away from the PC's fan*.
Some models have a fiber-optic output, so your stereo's gotta have an optic in....I was bummed to find out my soundcard doesnt have an analog output.

2) Budgetting$$$.....everyday PCs have fans...more fans..more noise.....so nowadays kids are making these water cooled PCs. they are bad ass and utterly quiet. If you got a good job, go for the gold, build that water cooled bad boy. even better use anti-freeze instead.

3) options: hard drives....big ones. You could take your music and store it on hard drives....the limit is about 4 or so Hard drives....but if youve got big dollars you could get the 300gb capacities... also the latest HDs use a new faster connection...at the time I forget the name....you would need a motherboard that can handle the new connector.

Best of luck. if youre looking for to have one built I can talk to my dad, because we have put together quite a few in our time.

-Ryan

If the link doesn't work google Coolermaster Musketeer 3; should find some Computex 2005 coverage showcasing it.

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