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post #1 of 11
5/23/12 at 9:07pm
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heya hi guys,ive just bought the hdav1.3 deluxe sound card
the purpose of me buying the card was so i could use my pc

CPU ---AMD Phenom II X4 840 - Quad Core 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W --- NEW model from AMD
* Motherboard --- Nvidia 7025 Chipset Plus AM3+ DDR3 SATA slots PCI-E Six Core Ready - Excellent quality

* Memory --- Transcend 4GB DDR3-1333 Memory
* Hard Drive --- West Digital 500GB SATA3 HDD
* DVD Writer --- LG SATA 22x Speed Optical DVD Writer
* PC Case --- TX373 Style PC Case
* Video Card --- NVIDIA GT430 1GB Video Card, excellent graphics choice!

* Audio --- 8 -Channel High-Definition Audio
* Network --- RTL8211CL Gigabit LAN
* USB Port --- 2 Front USB, 4 Rear USB
* OS --- Windows 7 Home Premium Version (32bit)

to play 320kbps mp3s using winamp on my stereo

Marantz SR5004 Home Theatre receiver

have been using the the headphone jack in the back of the pc to the rcas on my stereo for a year now and thought it was time for an upgrade,basically i was just wanting to use an hdmi cable from my soundcard to my stereo

now heres my problem,ive installed the soundcard,it says its all working correctly,i just cant get any sound when using the hdmi cable,the rcas work fine but i want to use the hdmi

any suggestions would be appreaciated
thanks
ben
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post #2 of 11
5/24/12 at 3:02am
I don't think you need the Xonar card to achieve this...

Your GT430 video card can do this using the same HDMI connection you're currently using for video to the AVR...

In your sound player application, you only need to select (probably direct sound) your GT card as the default audio device and that should be it...
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post #3 of 11
5/24/12 at 3:25am
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Originally Posted by ben666 View Post

heya hi guys,ive just bought the hdav1.3 deluxe sound card
the purpose of me buying the card was so i could use my pc

* Video Card --- NVIDIA GT430 1GB Video Card, excellent graphics choice!


Return it; pronto!
As pointed out above, your 430 is enough for audio bitstreaming.

To expand on it; video chipsets nowadays have a built-in audio controller that will allow you to send out the HD audio over the video card's HDMI port. All you need is the drivers and the right software player.

The HDAV will only work with TMT.
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post #4 of 11
5/24/12 at 7:10am
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Return it; pronto!
As pointed out above, your 430 is enough for audio bitstreaming.

To expand on it; video chipsets nowadays have a built-in audio controller that will allow you to send out the HD audio over the video card's HDMI port. All you need is the drivers and the right software player.

The HDAV will only work with PowerDVD.

I thought the HDAV came with TMT2, upgradeable to TMT3 through the Asus website.

Wasn't it the Auzentech that came with PDVD?

I have the HDAV and love it since it came with TMT3. By using Anydvd, TMT3 has played every BR disc and rip I have tried.

Bitstreaming couldn't be easier than using the Xonar.

What is the sound output device? I choose spdif passthrough. Getting TrueHD and DTS-HD MA to my receiver works without issue under Win7, XP, and Vista.
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post #5 of 11
5/24/12 at 12:07pm
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Wasn't it the Auzentech that came with PDVD?

You are correct!
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post #6 of 11
5/24/12 at 6:44pm
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damnit,hopefully they will take it back,jeez im a dumbass,so its virtually worthless for what i want to do?
on a side note what would produce better sound quality for what i listen to hdmi or spdif?
thanks guys
also even though i realise mp3 isnt the best choice of music format,am hdmi or spdif has got to better than the headph jack to rca in the receiver right?
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post #7 of 11
5/25/12 at 6:10am
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Originally Posted by ben666 View Post

damnit,hopefully they will take it back,jeez im a dumbass,so its virtually worthless for what i want to do?
on a side note what would produce better sound quality for what i listen to hdmi or spdif?
thanks guys
also even though i realise mp3 isnt the best choice of music format,am hdmi or spdif has got to better than the headph jack to rca in the receiver right?

Not worthless; just real expensive for something that can be achieved with a $20 video card.

With MP3 sources, the connection type is not going to make a difference.
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post #8 of 11
5/25/12 at 7:22am
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Originally Posted by ben666 View Post

damnit,hopefully they will take it back,jeez im a dumbass,so its virtually worthless for what i want to do?
on a side note what would produce better sound quality for what i listen to hdmi or spdif?
thanks guys
also even though i realise mp3 isnt the best choice of music format,am hdmi or spdif has got to better than the headph jack to rca in the receiver right?

It's not worthless. It is a great card, it comes with TMT3 which would have cost around $75 if you bought it separately, and it is extremely easy to get bitstreaming under all versions of Windows.
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post #9 of 11
5/25/12 at 10:48am
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Originally Posted by audit13 View Post

It's not worthless. It is a great card, it comes with TMT3 which would have cost around $75 if you bought it separately,

That's a good point!
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post #10 of 11
5/25/12 at 3:10pm
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god i feel like a dumbass now,havent heard back from the comapny yet,hopefully they give me store credit at least......lol
so if i was to use hdmi from my existing videocard with say flac?
might hae to try that maybe?
also would a DAC help with mp3 or flac?
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post #11 of 11
5/25/12 at 6:35pm
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Originally Posted by ben666 View Post

god i feel like a dumbass now,havent heard back from the comapny yet,hopefully they give me store credit at least......lol
so if i was to use hdmi from my existing videocard with say flac?
might hae to try that maybe?
also would a DAC help with mp3 or flac?

If you were to get a dac and feed the dac's analog output to your receiver, your receiver would have to re-digitize the signal in order to apply equalization which defeats the function of the dac.

Flac is lossless compression but MP3 is lossy compression. Nothing you can do or add will replace the lost data when converting from a lossless format to MP3.
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