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Originally posted by MDdan
I'll just bet that motherboard is a real turkey. Slapping a vacuum tube on there does necessarily make for good sound. A good quality vacuum tube amplifier is big bucks...how much does the motherboard sell for? Just a gimmic I'll bet, a high end sound blaser probably sounds better.

I'm with you on this one, Dan, although, I'm presuming that this is a simple fixed-gain dual-triode circuit that just does preamp chores. That can be done pretty well cheaply enough.

BUT...this thing has got 5.1 audio onboard, and there's no way that circuit can tube-fy all 5 channels and again, the amount of electromagnetic hash flying around the inside of a computer would make it doubly difficult for this to even impart a bit of tube sweetness to just two channels without treading very close to unacceptable levels of noise and distortion.

Nawp, my guess is that it's a gimmick to appeal to audiophiles who are also computer owners.... L K!! We got T BS!!