Differences between sow, TI desktop & TI desktop new version??

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Originally Posted by Monobeat

When the computer processes the audio via USB, the sound is not as nice, this is FO SHO!!!!!!!!! The analog outs sound much nicer.

IMHO

ditto on this one, analog outs sound better to my ears. It could just be as simple as introducing artifacts (desirable or otherwise) through cabling as well as the quality of the audio device used and it's A/D converters, and I'm sure there are plenty of ways to make the analog outs sound crappy, but there's something to be said about the way the sound is coming out and how it gets back into the box. I cannot speak however for what the actual process is of how USB audio is transmitted and what kind of things can degrade the signal, not intentionally, but just through the process of getting in the computer...jitter? quantization errors? Beats me.