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Hi Frank: A consumer receiver probably wants to see -10 level and consumer equipment probably only puts out -10 but you can experiment and see. If loud stuff sounds distorted, good chance the reciever input is overloaded and jumper down to -10. My card from BSW came jumped at -10 anyway. I was surprised because factory default used to be +4. So make sure it's really set at +4. Glad to hear it all worked out. I think you'll dig it. Great piece of technology. -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Strauss" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Good price on B-Stock DAL CardDeluxe > On 12/26/06, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=CDX01-BSTOCK >> >> The Digital Audio Labs site indicates the card's list price is now $399 >> instead of $525, as it was a >> few years ago. But $270 is still the best price I've seen for it. I've >> bought B-stock items from BSW >> before and had no problems, for what it's worth. >> >> I still think this is one of the best-sounding 2-channel interfaces out >> there. This one will go in >> my home office PC to replace the horrible on-motherboard Intel junko-sound >> chip. >> >> -- Tom Fine >> > > Hi Tom-As I mentioned to you, my order from BSW arrived very promptly. > Yahoo-CardDeluxe is in and working! Beautiful sound now emanates from my > computer, runs over to the receiver, jumps out onto a little pair of Bose > 301's, and zaps into my ears. No chirps, chips, hum, hiss, etc. It was a > little complex because the new computer opens from a hatch on the left side, > and there are four cooling fans, two of them blowing through a duct system > that had to be removed to access the motherboard. The motherboard had > alternating slots, one kind of which the board did not fit into.(guess which > one I used?) Radio shack had the 1/4" TRS/RCA cable for inputting to the > receiver. I disabled motherboard sound in the Advanced tab in BIOS, and > when I went to disable it in System, it wasn't there. I left the jumpers at > default; should I change to -10db for use with my receiver? Next big hurdle > will be to send some analog signal into the card, and see what happens. > Thanks for your suggestion and help. Am sitting here listening to Gayla > Peevey sing my favorite Christmas carol. > > > -- > Frank B Strauss, DMD >