Need zvukovuha 5.1, 192 kHz, 24 bits on optics!?

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Sound cards

Help me choose a zvukovuhu 5.1, 192 kHz, 24 bits on

optics I’m changing the motherboard and for the second time I already stumble upon the fact that all the built-ins are going shit right now, and I can’t pick up anything from the external ones, although my requirements are not high - I definitely need 5.1 in optics, by analogy, at least let it be 1.0, it will never be used, but what else is the problem - from those that I found sound - either 5.1 does not support or the quality is like that of a cassette player, i.e. 48 kHz, 16 bits, 2 channels, but at least, like mine - 192 kHz, 24 bits, 5.1 precisely by optics, and not by analog ... well, and perhaps still an adequate output for a microphone ... well, that is . without perversion, as in my 1150 it is quite suitable)
In short, we need an external sound system Realtek ALC1150, or rather, the type of connection is not important, the price ... well, it doesn’t really matter, although, perhaps for a card more expensive than 5-6k, the toad will suffocate me, because the motherboard, when I bought it, cost a couple of 7k, and then this is an expensive and fat motherboard ...

so debility formulated the question, because of the rules of the site ...

Answer 1

I dug a little deeper and it seems I understood what is special about me - the blue receiver itself does not work as a receiver ... I talked with a friend, he already threw me a couple of options for receivers, though ... I don’t want to change everything so radically ... there and connectors will have to be soldered and connected and set up all over again ... but I will keep this thought in my head and maybe THAT I will buy a receiver. through DTS Connect and DTS Interactive, there really is a catch - I always found these two functions together on the same sound from Asus ... more precisely, I also met the connection on one creative one, but there was no interactive ... although they should be together, because I choose this interactive in the sound settings and then the sound becomes 5.
Those. ideally, I should generally throw out or sell this blue receiver and buy a receiver and not worry about the settings in Windows at all (he suggested that he selects 5.1 only on the receiver, he does not touch other settings) or find a sound system with DTS Connect and DTS Interactive, however, as I said earlier, I haven’t met these functions together on any of them yet, although I found a mention that DTS Connect was replaced with Dolby Digital Live, although I found both together in one of the sound systems, but DTS Interactive is more important to me, which, as I already said - when setting up the sound, I choose to turn on 5.1, but so far I haven’t found it anywhere ... or maybe it’s called DTS Digital Surround now?

Answer 2

In terms of optics (are we talking about Toslink / S / P-DIF now?) In principle, 5.1.192 kHz, 24 bits does not work - there is not enough bandwidth.
5.1 in this case output in DTS / AC3 ​​format (like on DVD). For realtecs, there are patched firewood with DTS Connect support (for those chips that do not support this in the driver). The feature, as I understand it, is purely software, it's just that they give it to motherboards more expensive, cheaper - no.
BTW, DTS - (excluding DTS-HD Master Audio) a lossy compression format. There is even such a phenomenon - DTS Audio CD - when DTS tracks are written instead of PCM (respectively, instead of 2 - 6, with a corresponding decrease in the bitrate of each) - it plays like noise on a player without a decoder.
Whether the bitrate will be higher in the case of DTS Connect - I don’t know, when I used the card it gave 44.1 / 16, EMNIP in this mode.
Actually, I would suggest two options:
1. Use HDMI for sound output - there is uncompressed sound, and all DTS / DD / AC3 ​​options pass without problems.
2. Or download patched firewood to your chip and raise DTS Connect programmatically.
PS everything described is applicable to the stream receiver - the receiver (or the player, if it can). And the purchase of a receiver will not get rid of the task of delivering a stream from a PC. The fact that we will send stereo from the computer, and the receiver will decompose - it is of course possible, and Dolby has a separate storage format for multi-channel sound in stereo, but it is much more correct, IMHO, to deliver the sound as is (DTS / AC3 ​​from the player in its original form, 5.1 from games / the rest, or as is, or through DTS encoding in order to meet the optics bitrate).