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Vincent_Z@adobeforums.com wrote:
 
> For a long time, I've been experimenting on getting the
> best possible sound through my relatively cheap equipment.
> Recently, I've discovered the less equipment there is between
> your soundcard and your monitors, the more "pure" the sound is.

A good concept to understand, less sometimes is more.

> Using this logic, I've now decided to master audio through a
> set of Sennheiser headphone plugged into the headphone socket
> on my soundcard.

Hmmm .... 

> The audio is now much sharper, and has a much less processed sound.

I use a cable and a passive 12-20 dB attenuator between sound card and
power amp, actual attenuation to use depends on loudspeaker sensitivity,
wattage and input sensitivity, minimum attenuation is whatever that is
large enough to prevent the sound card from ever clipping the power amp.

> Would you advise I continue doing so using this method or is it
> worth me investing in some expensive hardware?

Price does not correlate quite as well with performance as equipment
sales people tend to suggest. Something KEF, perhaps Coda, in the 20
liter range, and a sensibly sized power amp, Yamaha has a sensibly sized
one, look also at Behringer and certainly at Rotel, which would be the
first brand I listened to in the relevant wattage range (10 times the
loudspeaker's DIN rated sensitivity, ie. number of watts for 96 dB at
one meter, is a likely minimum requirement for RMS power pr. channel in
actual impedance).


   Kind regards

   Peter Larsen


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