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Badg3r
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Jul 7, 2018
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Hello,
I'm very new to this, but just purchased the K7XX & the O2 amp at standard gain 110V. wondering how this will all work when it comes to playing this from my computer. I have a MSI Z270 Pro Carbon motherboard with decent onboard sound. Now i was wondering how this will work with RCA to 3.5mm directly into my MoBo. did I make the right choice in amp for using this for gaming/music?
AdrianL
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Jul 8, 2018
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Badg3rThere are 3.5mm to rca cables for connecting from Mobo to o2
Edit: just to be clear, the amp doesnt come with 3.5mm to RCA cables. you will have to buy it from somewhere. Chances are you can find it from local electronic stores, but quality and shielding is not as good and might catches noise from the environment.
Michael-Q
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Jul 10, 2018
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Badg3rThe amp is plenty of power for k7xx and has the pure op amp goodness inside (apposed to other amp designs having large current power stages-> can get noisy if not done right).
Generic cables are perfectly fine for the most part as long as you keep them short.
If you live in america Monoprice 6ft 3.5mm Stereo Plug/2 RCA Plug Cable, Black (product?p_id=665). Will probably work just fine for like $3. I wouldn't recommend the premium cable from monoprice -> the added weight and stiff robustness allowed it to bend a little inside the 3.5mm connector and made poor connection sometimes (sound crackled and/or cut out).
Another option is Product # 9768 from monoprice. Little more expensive (by $1) but you have the option of a 3ft cable.
Generic cables are perfectly fine for the most part as long as you keep them short.
If you live in america Monoprice 6ft 3.5mm Stereo Plug/2 RCA Plug Cable, Black (product?p_id=665). Will probably work just fine for like $3. I wouldn't recommend the premium cable from monoprice -> the added weight and stiff robustness allowed it to bend a little inside the 3.5mm connector and made poor connection sometimes (sound crackled and/or cut out).
Another option is Product # 9768 from monoprice. Little more expensive (by $1) but you have the option of a 3ft cable.
Michael-Q
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Jul 22, 2018
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william32123If your computer has an analog audio output to plug your speakers or headphones into and you are able to listen to youtube, you have have a DAC in your pc. You're listening to a digital sound source on your computer which coverts it to analog so that your speakers can play it (unless your speakers have the DAC ->less common but certainly possible).
With that said, I'm actually not sure what the performance of a standard sound card is. 16bit/44.1kHz??? My computer gets 24bit/96KHz. It's not exactly amazing but not complete crap either. I doubt I can here differences higher than that. However, I do hear a hiss with high sensitivity headphones. So.... an external DAC will at least fix that for me.
A large number of external DAC's can provide far better spec's than my motherboard's (well claim they can). I plan on getting the Topping D50 DAC as my endgame for the next 10 years probably. 192kHz /24bit optical I think: might just be 16bit at that sampling with optical. 768kHz / 32bit USB -> at least it claims that. i doubt it actually outputs 32bit analog.
With that said, I'm actually not sure what the performance of a standard sound card is. 16bit/44.1kHz??? My computer gets 24bit/96KHz. It's not exactly amazing but not complete crap either. I doubt I can here differences higher than that. However, I do hear a hiss with high sensitivity headphones. So.... an external DAC will at least fix that for me.
A large number of external DAC's can provide far better spec's than my motherboard's (well claim they can). I plan on getting the Topping D50 DAC as my endgame for the next 10 years probably. 192kHz /24bit optical I think: might just be 16bit at that sampling with optical. 768kHz / 32bit USB -> at least it claims that. i doubt it actually outputs 32bit analog.
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