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I will save you some trouble... Get a good USB S/pdif (digital) adapter and an external DAC, or if you can find one in your budget, get a DAC that has USB support built in.

Trust me... I have spent the last few weeks troubleshooting, and anything you can do to avoid having to work with a soundcard is more than worth it in the end. There are so many problems with sound cards that even a very technical minded person like myself can get frustrated with. Almost all the problems that pop up with sound cards and audiophile quality audio are undocumented by manufacturers and finding a specific answer by wading through hundreds of forum posts can be daunting. With many sound cards it isn't even possible to get a clean bit-perfect signal at all, and many of the ones that work are very expensive and come with pro-level features you will never use for 2 channel music.

I am just saying... you can avoid all that by simply using a USB s/pdif adapter and a DAC.

I would recommend using a Trends UD-10, it has good clock and every type of digital connection to use with all types of external DACs and it isolates everything else in your chain from your computer's power supply.

You would follow all the instructions you might get (in many other threads here) for how to setup your media player correctly to play the files you want to use for your music, and use the USB adapter as the audio device. Works like a charm.

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