Digitaal houdt niet in dat er geen sprake is van storingen, hoewel voor de meesten een SPDIF uitgang al veel beter klinkt (icm een DAC) dan analoge outputs op een geluidskaart.
Check dit eens, hiermee kun je perfecte SPDIF out krijgen dmv oa. Trust kaartjes van net geen 15 euro:
http://code.google.com/p/cmediadrivers/wiki/Bitperfect
''Most consumer grade soundcards aren't bitperfect by design: some sound hardware may be limited to only one sample rate to the effect that sound processing is mandatory (sample rate conversion in this case), in other soundcards' drivers there are annoying "features" which can't be fully disabled (e.g. karaoke, fake 3D sound, "crystalizer" and alike). The latter applies to the C-Media based soundcards: while the hardware is fully capable of bitperfect playback at a multitude of sample rates, all versions of the official driver process the sound. Some versions even cripple the sample size of the sound data from regular 16 bit down to 14 bit which results in a hefty loss of dynamic range (roughly estimated from 96dB/16 bit to 84dB/14 bit).
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So in essence, in the past there have been only two options for the audiophile user: either accept the deterioration of sound quality induced by the driver's processing, or bite the bullet and buy an expensive professional grade soundcard. Not anymore: after reading the specs of a C-Media chip, I decided to write my own driver from scratch which completely avoids processing. It is compatible to C-Media based soundcards which are widely available for a mere 20 US$/€. The result is a slim and sleek driver which runs on all major Windows operating systems. It supports bitperfect playback for 16 bit sound streams at sample rates of 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz and 96kHz - this effectively covers almost all music on CDs and subsequent formats as well as audio from DVDs on sale today.''