Hmm, that is an idea. Also of course one could leave the screenreader on the
internal card, and only have the audio you want through the drivers to the
new external card.

Hmmm
Brian

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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Brian Gaff
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I had to put a new psu in a machine over the Christmas, and now notice
the bog standard Soundblaster live card seems to be outputting a kind of
gurgling whine which varies and kind of sounds likt e sort of low level
interference you get on some weaker fm stations. I guess the crud
removal in the psu is crap, but the thing is,does anyone do a kind of
gadget you can plug the motherboard power plug into, and get cleaner
power out for the board. after all nothing else has changed, so it has
to be on the power line to the analogue bits of the card.

Why not simply change to an outboard DAC like the DACMagic? That works
very
well in my experience.

BTW It does not *have* to just conducted by the power line. Could be
radiated or EM coupled.

FWIW Personally I avoid using any analogue stages inside a computer as
they
generally aren't designed to provide a suitable environment. Instead I
either take out optical SPDIF or USB (as for the DACMagic). Of these
optical is probably best if you have a serious interference problem, but
USB works nicely in the cases I've tried with the DACMagic.

Slainte,

Jim

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