aldelaro5
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.....idk what you mean by equaliser, but maybe my explanation on the dac effect might answer your question.Say, can an equaliser substitute for a dac? I've seen adjusting that can reduce the crackling in the external speakers.
See, a pc has lots of stuff that happens because......well, a cpu.....does a lot
So say you ahve a motherboard and in the motherboard, there's stuff to process audio. There's a dac and an amp for your headphones. The audio on onboard recently are actually.....pretty decent! You actually wouldn;t really NEED a sound card because of this tbh, unless you badly want surround sound, but yeah, usualyl, you woudln;t need a sound card these days unless you want one.
But the problem is what if the traffic that happens inside the pc disturb your poor audio chips?
That can happen and I actually lived it when i had my laptop and a particular usb port occupied, the movement of my mouse affected the sound of a very annoying high pitch noise. I don;t have the laptop anymore, but that;s an example I lived where there was probably too much interference, my audio chips weren;t happy, I wasn;t happy and it was sad
The point of a dac is number one: have more features if needed (potentially better than onbaord but like I said.....onbaord are decent these days) and second, to move the complete audio processing OUTSIDE of the pc. If you plug a dac, you bypass your onbaord audio ENTIRELY which removes any possible interferences you mgith get.
However......you can still have a problem if you want to power your headphones, it might not be amplified enough so you might need an amp, but usually, headphones are low impedence (32 ohms or lower) so you might be fine without one.
So, you move your audio processing out of your pc so your audio is happy you are happy and it;s happy
Now, you can buy a combo I saw a product called the euh..... (don;t sensor on that one, i swear, google it, the company is called like that) it is called the Fulla from Schitt audio (serious, they really called themselves Schitt, I am not joking, go on google, it;s true). Anyway, the Fulla is an usb dac AND amp.
So yeah if you plug your speaker to your pc and you hear weird noises, get a dac.....might solve problems