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One of the crucial things that are usually taken for granted in digital audio systems is the conversion of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog. It’s probably because you are not giving that much thought when playing a digital synthesizer, the digital-to-analog converter that lets you feed audio into an amp.<\/p>\n\n\n

Compare the sound that comes out of a laptop\u2019s minijack to the sound of a quality outboard converter fed by one of the laptop\u2019s digital ports, such as a USB port, and you\u2019ll hear a major difference. Hence, a converter is indeed important.<\/p>\n\n\n

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One of the crucial things that are usually taken for granted in digital audio systems is the conversion of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog. It’s probably because you are not giving that much thought when playing a digital synthesizer, the digital-to-analog converter that lets you feed audio into an amp. 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