[mythtv-users] Fw: Integrated Sound vs. Sound Card, suggestions ??

[Chris]

> The audio stays in the digital domain, and you don't have to worry about the cheap and nasty audio amplifiers they put onto motherboards or cheap audio cards, or the poor power filtering in the computer, or the crosstalk from GHz radio signals flying around in the computer case.


This sounds wonderful until you discover that not all of your sources 
clock the audio data at the same rate (32Khz, 44Khz, 48Khz) and unless 
your receiver provides a readout of the incoming data rate you may spend 
a long time figuring out why your sound is bad or non-existant.

> I am about to set this up, once I have the LIRC remote control done, and I find a decent price for a TOSLINK optical cable ($20 for 1.5m of fishing line and some plastic connectors just shouts RIPOFF to me).

I've found good ones on Ebay for $3.50.