"Rich.Andrews" wrote in message


Not solving a problem per se, but I am trying to sort out which sound
card I might be happy with. Many of the common sound cards sound a
bit harsh or have some sort of "digital grunge" or both. The magic
is that two DACs in parallel lowers distortion. Proper chip
decoupling lowers "digital grunge".

Digital grunge is a marketing term with no real-world significance, in the
21st century world of top-quality converters.

Since I can run audio through a computer 20 times in a row without any
audible change as shown in the files from

http://www.pcabx.com/product/cardd_deluxe/index.htm

we have adequate proof that digital grunge is no longer a real-world
problem.