TheRealRodStewart_2 t1_jeco6f9 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:15 AM

The board you have should give you loud, clear, distortion free audio, have you checked the sample rate in windows, maybe try raising or lowering it, also turn off audio enhancements, if it’s still noisy I expect something is leaking noise into the system. Can you try your amp from a different source, maybe from your phone/tablet using a 3.5 to RCA, if that’s clear I’d try a cheap external dac as you could spend a long time trying to find the issue with the pc

Own-Cost9676 t1_jecqyb2 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:37 AM

What do people usually use for their sample rate? As high as it goes? Mine is just defaulted to 24 bit 48k but I can go to 96k or 192k or lower. I’ll play around with it

I’ll try running a different device. I’m waiting for the iPhone dongle but I’ll go dig out my old Samsung phone and see what happens

Own-Cost9676 t1_jed1i68 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:01 AM

Thank you my friend. Another person told me I should be maxing my windows volume out and adjusting with the amp only so I tried that and upped the sample rate. It sounds wonderful now