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RE: Optical is a bad digital option I hear, what about on long runs, and a cell tower..??

If you are using the analog line-out of your AE7 sound card and connecting to line-in of your AVR, then you are only using the dac on the sound card. The stereo line-in input connection on your AVR is wired internally so that your AVR dac is bypassed. No double "dac"ing.

If you chose to use the optical digital output from your sound card, it bypasses its own dac 9018 chip and instead uses the dac built in your AVR, or other outboard dac, via the optical input. No double "dac"ing.

Unfortunately it's difficult to speculate which set up would sound best. Even considering your on-board PC card and HDMI cables.

Sometimes you just have to buy and try.

Is your out-board or AVR Dac better than either sound card dac? If so then the toslink connection should be the way to go.

Hope this helps.

Jonesy




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