On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:27:09 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:



You just need a good sound card that doesn't resample or otherwise butcher
the digital signal. You need to be sure to avoid contaminating the digital
signal with a ground loop. But you said "optical link" didn't you? That
pretty well eliminates ground loops as a source of problems!

Yes, it's going to be an Audigy 2 NX, external (USB 2.0), because the
PC I'm planning to use only takes low profile PCI cards, and a decent
sound card in this form factor seems to be scarce as hobby-horses'
doo-doos

I did like that suggstion in another thread about PC based players,
where the poster had gone for a monitor-less system and controlled it
using VNC from a laptop! After all, a just decent s/h laptop is
probably cheaper than a new TFT monitor.
Gelf