The best "pci" not E sound card on the market.

[kalikka]

 

I'm confused...

What are you talking about?

The soundcard output impedance has absolutely nothing to do with the speakers as the speakers amplifier is there. The amplifier is which decides the output impedance to the speakers, not the soundcard!

Line-level (100ohm-600ohm output impedance) is as good as 2ohm for speakers.

 

The SBZ headphone amp is nothing spectacular, it's output impedance is 20ohm etc. Schiit Magni and O2 beat it easily without breaking a sweat.

I seriously hope you are not reading Coconut-Audio...

 

 

I'm not entirely sure where you're going here, but output impedance is not a measure of quality for an amplifier (be it for speakers or headphones).

 

 

Thor - I think the confusion is coming from the article you linked in context of what you're posting; the article is about impedance selection for car audio speakers, not anything to do with the quality of source electronics or home audio speakers. Nominal impedance (or any other kind of impedance; output, input, etc) doesn't dictate or speak to the quality of a speaker or sound system - it's just a specification that's useful for matching components to one another. Judging the quality of a pair of speakers is a somewhat more involved process - unfortunately there's no simple metric like WEI or 3DMark for that, at least currently.

What I meant by the amp impedance is which impedance speakers the amp is meant for. Can't remember the right english word for it because finnish is a crazy language (treble = diskantti, etc) ...

[Thor.]

Never mind, anyways i solved my issue, i think this thread is closed for now. Considering the fact this thread was originally mean't for, and was technically closed to begin with :smile:

 

by the time i posted it i was already on the way to installing it, ty thanks for the help anyways.

Edited February 5, 2014 by Thor.