Question VE ODO

dongle DAC VE Odo is good or bad for use in PC with Windows? acctually i use audio chip motheboard

Greetings and welcome to the forum!

Whether the Odo is better than the dac on your motherboard will depend on the motherboard. However, there are a couple of thoughts that might help you figure out how you want to handle this -

1: dedicated devices tend to be better at their job than the included functions on a multifunction device

2: A PC motherboard is a very complicated and noisy electronic environment. The potential for unwanted interference and noise is considerably greater than with a separate device.

In general it has been my thought that dongle DACs are probably a decent upgrade from the integrated DAC in most phones, but the sound section of a PC motherboard gives plenty of room for a solid DAC implementation, so it is pretty likely that your mobo’s integrated sound is actually well handled - just in a less than perfect environment.

At the end of the day, I would say try it out. The potential really does exist that it could be an upgrade.

Modern motherboards are likely fine but depending on the age it may also be terrible. I know my old pc (12 year old MB) is quite terrible with the dac&amp in it.

Specifically it is the MSI Z87-G43, compared to the JDS Atom + Topping E30 setup.