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    The sound is terrible on my PC ... Is there any external soundcard or gadget that I could plug in my PC to listen to music with some kind of quality?

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    • External? Wouldn't the quality be throttled by the internal sound?
      Get an internal sound card?      pango
    • i dont know, any experts in the room?Bennn
    • Something like this? https://www.bhphotov…pango
    • i guess, but I wonder if there's any external USB soundcard that can take over the internal and produce better sound qualityBennn
    • What sound card are you running? Hard to believe any 'standard' sound card doesn't output respectable sound these days... I'm wondering if something is...PonyBoy
    • ... wrong with the card? Or perhaps your drivers are out of date? (download and update them just to be safe?)PonyBoy
    • Are you playing sound through speakers plugged into your computer or straight out of the computer's ass? lol if the latter... c'mon, bennn.PonyBoy
    • once the sound wave signal is created, it can only go worse not better. unless some artificial effected are done to it.pango
    • out some care in where the source is at?pango
    • *putpango
    • yup, get a dachans_glib
    • DAC ... most soundcards these days output absolute shit sound, especially via the analog ports. USB to DAC is the only way around it for pure sound. Period.monospaced
    • Yep, DAC for BENnfuturefood
    • i was looking at these before I went another direction. https://jdslabs.com/…futurefood
    • I'm using headphones. Sound is terrible since the last Windows10 update, i'm using a Dell pcBennn
    • all my drivers are up to dateBennn
    • what's a DAC? Any links?Bennn
    • Digital Analog Convertermonospaced
    • Does your headphone jack plug direct into your motherboard? If so, get a dedicated soundcard. I think I have an Asus Xonar - cost like £20 or something.Nairn
    • https://audioengineu…monospaced
    • *lovingly strokes his MacBook Pro with natively just fine sound*Continuity
    • Strangely, that's exactly the same as most PCs, and even more strangely, people buy soundcards for Macs too. How much was your mac vs. a Dell though?Nairn
    • Even dedicated soundcards, and those in Macs, have crap DACs in them, made worse by the crap ports.monospaced
    • @Continuity: The sound on your MBP is still noticeably worse than even entry level USB soundcards from Focusrite, Presonus, etc.section_014
    • get a macinteliboy
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