I didn't expect this .......
I thought I would upgrade from my mother board SPDIF to a high end Asus Essence ST sound card into my Berhinger DCX 2496.
When I did, it sounded worse.
The system lost depth, and picked up a hard edge and sounded rather lifeless.
I thought, well maybe the sound card needs to be "broken in" and I left it for several hours, and honestly it is pretty hard to listen too compared to the smooth open sound I was used to.
I took out the Asus, reinstalled the mother board SPDIF drivers and I am back to smooth, deep and just nice to listen to.
What do you think could be going on? I thought the Asus was supposed to be a pretty nice set up.
The end game was to use the Asus Essence 7.1 sound card and "Frequency Allocator" for active crossover and EQ from the sound card directly into my amps.
Now I am questioning how that might sound with the lack of quality from the SPDIF output in the Asus card.
Any insight would be appreciated.