Question / Help Better Audio Chip/Codec = Better Quality Recorded Audio?

[Reape_28]

Hey guys,

I've got a quick question.. I kind of know the answer I just wanted to hear other peoples opinions/thoughts and wasn't really sure how to word it out for the title to make sense

Will having a higher-end audio chip/codec (on your motherboard or separate sound-card) result in higher quality audio when you're recording or is that simply just left to what audio codec you're recording to? Like PCM, AAC etc. I know the quality difference will probably be really minor but I'm just curious, and would that be the same answer to using a separate PC to record to?


Thanks for the help guys

 

[Reape_28]

Anybody?

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

strange question. listen to onboard realtek and a card like xonar for example on some good 5.1 or 7.1 speakers. difference is huge if you can hear it and is preserved in recording

 

[Reape_28]

Sorry for the late reply, Didn't expect people to even answer lol. Yeah I was kind of figuring that I just wasn't 100% sure. I myself can definitely hear a difference between Realtek and separate cards or mobo's with a better chip or even bitrate's in some situations.

If I was splitting the signal to a capture card I guess the audio would be recorded/captured on the GPU through HDMI instead of the motherboards audio?