It's no longer quite plug 'n play - I upgraded to ASIO drivers made specifically for the box which sweetened up the sound a lot. Plug the turntable into the line in, plug the line out to the receiver. The Behringer is a lil outboard box with a USB cable to the computer and RCA line in and out. Went from that to an Asus Xonar - once again, good reviews, but it would have taken a bullet to clean up all the special effects, even running generic drivers. Tried an E-MU404 that I'd seen rave reviews about and it was noisy as all get out. I'd played around with internal soundcards and rolled craps there. It steps down to ?/16 bit over USB - I haven't found a max sample rate over USB, but I've got to wonder if that steps down too. The Aune X1 specs out at 192/24 - but only on optical and coaxial.

Cheap chips, and you might as well be listening to radio. Anyone know one way or the other?ĩ6khz/24 is a big improvement over what I got, and it's a good price, assUming the DAC chipset is decent. Decent specs - especially nice if you can use the headphone amp to tweak the level into the receiver to match the other components.

is that the same type of setup? It looks like it's got both line in and line out RCAs, so that might just be what I'm looking for. Most of the DACs I've seen are one way only - from the computer to the receiver. Turntable plugs in, USB to computer, sound comes out, RCA to receiver. It's biggest asset is it's plug 'n play, and easy two way hookup for ripping vinyl. I'm currently using a Behringer UCA202 and looking to maybe upgrade.

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