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By: dizbo Rank: Starfleet Ensign Postings: 3 From: n/a	Posted: Di Jan 29, 2008 - 12:03 Hi, not sure if this is in the right section. I have a voom pc 2 with the via itx board. i have two rca cables running into my sony head unit and i play the sound through my sony head unit. Now the quality of the sound from the pc is very poor. is there anyway i could improve it? Its like the sound is being played on really bad and blown speakers. but yet if i put a dvd in or cd its perfect sound quality.
By: heddan Rank: Starfleet Ensign Postings: 2 From: n/a	Posted: Do Jan 31, 2008 - 09:23 Hi, The reason why the quality is so low is because of the bad quality on the onboard soundcard that you are using now. Because you don't have space for a PCI soundcard in your case I would recommend you to go for a better USB soundcard. I'm running a VIA CN1300 itx board and when I was using the onboard soundcard the quality was very poor. I found a second hand SoundBlaster Audigy NX USB card and the sound quality is like night and day. With the USB sound card it actually is possible to listen to the music M-Audio and SoundBlaster have had some good USB sound card that I would go for if I was you. If you want to have even better sound quality that the USB sound card you probably need to go for a high end PCI card. I’m using an X-meridian PCI card with swapped OP amplifiers to National LM4562NA. This is a step up compared to the Audigy NX card. But still the biggest change is to go away from the on-board soundcard to a good USB soundcard. If you do that you will be happy with your sound from your car-pc Good luck with your project
By: heddan Rank: Starfleet Ensign Postings: 2 From: n/a	Posted: Sa Feb 02, 2008 - 08:02 See also this link for a good list of external solutions there is on the market. It's from mp3car.com forum. ultimate-usb-firewire-external-soundcard-list.html
By: simcap Rank: Starfleet Ensign Postings: 1 From: n/a	Posted: Di Feb 05, 2008 - 09:24 Message has been edited, Click Here to view/hide original message *Original Message - [02/05/2008]* *Original Message - [02/05/2008]* Hello, you can take a look to my standalone audio player. Basically it's a mini-pc plus an USB dac integrated in a single cabinet: http://www.simonecapretti.eu/Audio/MoSAP3/en/MoSAP3_en.htm Simone Hello, you can take a look also to my standalone audio player. Basically it's a mini-pc plus an USB external dac integrated in a single cabinet: http://www.simonecapretti.eu/Audio/MoSAP3/en/MoSAP3_en.htm Simone Hello, you can take a look also to my standalone audio player. Basically it's a mini-pc plus an USB external dac integrated in a single cabinet: http://www.simonecapretti.eu/Audio/MoSAP3/en/MoSAP3_en.htm Simone