Another one I heard of was something called an HRT music streamer, but don't
know much about it as I heard of it on the HT Geeks show on the Twit
network, I think.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dujari, Prateek" <prateek.duj...@intel.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:54 AM
Subject: RE: Separating Speech Synthesizer from Music and Streams
I'm a hard core audiophile and proud audio tech geek for home
stereos/speakers.
My last 10yrs of experience has convinced me to continue using an external
USB DAC to pull raw digital data of any sound from the laptop/net book/PC
to feed it to the D/A USB DAC and then pull it out of the DAc as analog
stereo RCA and feed it to the stereo amp/receiver. If u shop for USB dacs
you will see them mostly costing between $300 and 1000. However being the
audiophile geek I am, I've found the Peachtree DacIt costing $450 to be
the best in perf and price combo. Human ears can't detect the diff really
between the $1k DAC's and the $400 range ones. there is another USB DAC
the 1300SE from stereo-link.com costing $300 which I've been using for
last 10yrs until 2mo ago when I switched to the DacIT from Peachtree.
reason is that Stereo-link themselves admit as my experience shows that
with Win7 computers there exists a 50% chance it won't work with your PC
due to some unresolvable signal degradation issue.
Your second Q: I pipe JFW as well as all other sounds/music/streams
through my DAC/home stereo when I plug the DAC USb in to my computer. If
u want u can go to the JFW window under utilities and then sound card and
select the sound card u want JFW to talk through. I don't prefer this as
when I'm playing my music out loud I can't hear JFW if I'm piping JFW via
my PC speakers.
good luck!
Prateek
-----Original Message-----
From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:17 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Separating Speech Synthesizer from Music and Streams
Hi,
I have a Netbook that I'd like to use specifically for playing music and
perhaps streams through my stereo
system. Ideally, I would like to separate the speech I get from
Window-Eyes from what I hear through my
stereo. I know there are some pretty decent inexpensive USB sound cards
that would probably do the job.
Since I am looking at this for playback and not recording, I am not
concerned about inputs but I'd like to
have reasonable output quality. Therefore, I have two questions.
Does anyone have good or bad experiences with USB sound cards? Second,
does there seem to be an advantage
in allowing the music and streaming outputs to remain on the built-in
sound card and moving my screen
reader to the external one or is the reverse better? Window-Eyes does let
me select the sound card.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
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