Please help me out and tell me if this setup would work. My goal is to have a very nice sounding 2 channel setup mainly for listening to music, but also an occasional movie. (In the future, I want full 7.1 to be an option, which is why I didn't choose a stereo receiver.)
I'm planning on connecting my laptop, using a Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro sound card, to a Marantz SR4003 receiver which pushes two Polk Lsi9 bookshelves.
I wish to connect the sound card to the receiver with a toslink cable. Would the Audio Advantage Card allow the receiver to convert the signal to analog? At all costs, I don't want my laptop to use its DAC.
Thanks for your help!
Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro
(http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/micro/home.aspx
Marantz SR4003
(http://us.marantz.com/Products/2513.asp
Polk Lsi9s
http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/lsi/index.php?s=lsi9
One last question: Is a digital signal a digital signal, or are there varying degrees of quality? I mean a 1 is a 1 and a 0 is a 0, so...
Please help me out and tell me if this setup would work. My goal is to have a very nice sounding 2 channel setup mainly for listening to music, but also an occasional movie. (In the future, I want full 7.1 to be an option, which is why I didn't choose a stereo receiver.)
I'm planning on connecting my laptop, using a Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro sound card, to a Marantz SR4003 receiver which pushes two Polk Lsi9 bookshelves.
I wish to connect the sound card to the receiver with a toslink cable. Would the Audio Advantage Card allow the receiver to convert the signal to analog? At all costs, I don't want my laptop to use its DAC.
Thanks for your help!
Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro
(http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/micro/home.aspx
Marantz SR4003
(http://us.marantz.com/Products/2513.asp
Polk Lsi9s
http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/lsi/index.php?s=lsi9
One last question: Is a digital signal a digital signal, or are there varying degrees of quality? I mean a 1 is a 1 and a 0 is a 0, so...