need help looking for audio card

[anantec]

what kind of sound cards are capable of converting a digital input to an analogue output, at the same time outputing sound from my computer?

 

[anantec]

im looking at this card
http://www.asus.com/product.as...Pr6ko9pFF2D&templete=2

 

[PurdueRy]

I don't know what you mean...all sound cards convert a digital signal to a analog one, that's the entire concept of the sound card...

 

[anantec]

sorry if i didnt make it clear
what i meant was, i have a digital audio cable from a device, i want to connect that device to my sound card, and then connect my sound card to my speakers

so that my sound card is taking two sources, one from my computer, and one from my external device, combine two sources and output to my speakers

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: anantec
sorry if i didnt make it clear
what i meant was, i have a digital audio cable from a device, i want to connect that device to my sound card, and then connect my sound card to my speakers

so that my sound card is taking two sources, one from my computer, and one from my external device, combine two sources and output to my speakers

I know of no sound cards that will do this. They are designed as one input sources. Get a receiver if you want to handle multiple audio sources.

 

[Avatar28]

Um, I think most sound cards will do it. Unless I misunderstand, all you really want is for the sound card to take the spdif input signal and mix it with the computer's own sound and output it back out to speakers, no? That's pretty basic functionality that I would think any soundcard with a digital input would be able to handle. I'm assuming here that the signal coming in is standard PCM audio.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: Avatar28
Um, I think most sound cards will do it. Unless I misunderstand, all you really want is for the sound card to take the spdif input signal and mix it with the computer's own sound and output it back out to speakers, no? That's pretty basic functionality that I would think any soundcard with a digital input would be able to handle. I'm assuming here that the signal coming in is standard PCM audio.

Depends if he needs to decode it or not