At the end of the chain, the s/pdif output is going to my high end d2a which then feeds into my pre-amp and amp and then speakers. No part of the mobo or the sound card are going to be doing d2a work ...
Well, the difference would be that you'd use your speakers DAC instead of the DAC on the sound card. Now neither are probably very high quality, but if you use the speaker's DAC there should be less ...
The CS42518/28 are multi-channel audio codecs featuring S/PDIF receiver and a recovered S/PDIF clock or OMCK system clock selection. It is available with system sampling rates up to 192 kHz and ...