On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:06:54 GMT, "Rich.Andrews"
wrote:

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".

There are good and bad-sounding cards out there. But I wouldn't
worry too much about this particular bit of snake-oil. You've picked
it up from an audiophile review or advert? Come on over to the pro
audio world. You can still spend a lot of money if you insist, but
you'll get more for it than in the audiophile arena :-)