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Arny Krueger
 
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I saw a post of yours regarding the Midiman revolution card. I use my
computer to play music a lot in particular mp3s with bitrates 192.


192 Kb MP3's are typically decoded into 44/16 data, and so all you need is a
conventional 44/16 sound card to play them.

The 192 KHz sample rate features of the Midiman Revolution are not needed to
play 192 Kb MP3 files.

I'm not really that much of an audio expert, but would you suggest if I
were to buy this card, should I buy a receiver or an amplifier to
connect the card to some speakers?


You could have some pretty good tunes either way, but you would probably be
more comfortable with the receiver because it would probably give you better
price/performance, you'd probably like having a conventional volume control
at your disposal, and you might want to use your receiver's digital input.

My second question is that if I
took the coaxial output from the midiman and connected to a digital
input of a receiver/amplifier, what things should I be looking for in
the receiver/amplifier (things like sampling frequency, Dolby PL,
DTS)?


That would depend on the sample rate (not bitrate) format of the music you
want to play. Again 192 KB MP3's are decoded into 44/16 data streams that
the digital input on any conventional DD receiver can handle.


Finally, if I were to play a stereo encoded source such as an
mp3, would I get output from all speakers if I used the coaxial
output?


That would depend on settings on the receiver. Most of the DD hardware I've
seen has features that allow you to synthesize outputs for all channels from
a stereo source, such as the one you have when you play a MP3.