On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 02:05:12 +0000, Ian Molton wrote:

Has anyone any comments on likely sound quality compared to a
standalone CD player?
I'm thinking along the lines of feeding digital audio from a PC
soundcard via optical link to a standalone Musical Fidelity DAC, then
to amp and speakers.

Most likely you will be playing pack at 48kHz then, so *better* than CD
quality, all other things allowing...

Where would he be getting this 48KHz stuff from? :-)

To answer the question - yes, a computer will squirt bits into your
DAC just as well as any other digital source.