There is no physical possibility of having *good* onboard audio. Even with all the above construction techniques, it's damn near impossible to completely isolate the prodigious amounts of digital noise that a typical computer produces.
A much better idea is to run a digital link to an outboard DAC that has its own power supply and is outside the computer. That would actually give you extremely high quality audio, assuming the DAC box is properly designed.
As far as the "onboard" audio, I don't know. But Lynx TWO is a multi-channel professional sound card that fits in a PCI slot (and I mean real professional, not fake-spec professional) Check out the freaking specs!
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There is no physical possibility of having *good* onboard audio. Even with all the above construction techniques, it's damn near impossible to completely isolate the prodigious amounts of digital noise that a typical computer produces.
A much better idea is to run a digital link to an outboard DAC that has its own power supply and is outside the computer. That would actually give you extremely high quality audio, assuming the DAC box is properly designed.
As far as the "onboard" audio, I don't know. But Lynx TWO is a multi-channel professional sound card that fits in a PCI slot (and I mean real professional, not fake-spec professional) Check out the freaking specs!
was the OpenBSD / DARPA funding: article here