This is an official experiment. I thought I would use an old laptop (Pentium III - Dell) as an add on media hub for my audio system. I am using an Outlaw 1040 receiver with mono blocks to power ML fch, ML cch, Kef bch.

I know that digital audio from computers is uniquely poor and I will need an external soundcard (audigy?) for the laptop. Will I need a separate DAC converter? Is the a good program that will duplicate tube amps? What other advice do you have? Thx.