A simple question

[Nexblitzer]

So this might seam like a stupid question, but as i'm dipping my toes into the world of audio... i'm beginning to realise that there isn't such, thing as a "stupid" question. SO here my question. IF you per say have a DAC that plugs in via USB (Which i think most do, tell me if i'm wrong) Can you use a USB to 3.5 Audio Jack adaptor and just plug the DAC directly into your motherboard? IS there a quality difference?

Thanks for answering yall

[Guest]

Not sure what you mean?

Are you asking if you can go from the motherboard 3.5 into the DAC?

That would defeat the entire purpose of the DAC.

[MrMcMuffinJr]

17 minutes ago, Nexblitzer said:

So this might seam like a stupid question, but as i'm dipping my toes into the world of audio... i'm beginning to realise that there isn't such, thing as a "stupid" question. SO here my question. IF you per say have a DAC that plugs in via USB (Which i think most do, tell me if i'm wrong) Can you use a USB to 3.5 Audio Jack adaptor and just plug the DAC directly into your motherboard? IS there a quality difference?

Thanks for answering yall

TBH if it's just an adapter it's going to be sh!t. if you wanna start out, then I would go with a Schiit Fulla 2 $100. it sounds great and is a good start

[Nexblitzer]

29 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

Not sure what you mean?

Are you asking if you can go from the motherboard 3.5 into the DAC?

That would defeat the entire purpose of the DAC.

I'm talking about connecting the DAC's USB end to a USB to 3.5 mm audio jack adaptor. THEN connecting that to my motherboard.

[Nexblitzer]

11 minutes ago, MrMcMuffinJr said:

TBH if it's just an adapter it's going to be sh!t. if you wanna start out, then I would go with a Schiit Fulla 2 $100. it sounds great and is a good start

I'm talking about connecting the DAC's USB end to a USB to 3.5 mm audio jack adaptor. THEN connecting that to my motherboard.

 

[MrMcMuffinJr]

please make a diagram. why aren't you connecting Dac usb...to computer? out of ports

 

edit; just seems like you're over complicating it

 

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Nexblitzer said:

I'm talking about connecting the DAC's USB end to a USB to 3.5 mm audio jack adaptor. THEN connecting that to my motherboard.

No, that's not a thing. You can pass digital information to a 3.5mm jack like that.

It would also, as I said before, completely defeat the purpose of the DAC in the first place.

Just plug the DAC in via USB as intended.

[rice guru]

Im not sure I undertand the question and Im not sure you understand what a DAC is . a DAC is a Digital to analog converter headphones and speakers cant read and output a digital signal which is all 1s and 0s so we need a dac to turnt that into some sort of analog frequency that our headphones can read and output.  So your MOBO , your phone, even montiors with audio outs have DACS, the reason we pay extra is for the quality of a DAC.  so a usb to 3.5 mm is in itself a dac like apple dongle. if you were to say grab an amp then you can definitely plug it in to a dongle or use your motherboards 3.5 mm audioport directly. but 3.5 mm otherwise known as aux is not digital it's analog. some DAC/amps do have an anolog input if you want to bypass the built in DAC and just use the AMP though. 

[The Flying Sloth]

To sum up all the very correct responses you've received : NO 

DAC is Digital to Analogue conversion, 3.5mm is an analogue connection, you cannot convert the analogue 3.5mm jack into a USB port that supplies the 5V power expected and even if you could that would be an analogue connection going to a device wanting digital. It's just not a thing you can do. Just plug it into a USB port like it's supposed to be, it really isn't that complicated.

Sloth

[Nexblitzer]

8 hours ago, The Flying Sloth said:

To sum up all the very correct responses you've received : NO 

DAC is Digital to Analogue conversion, 3.5mm is an analogue connection, you cannot convert the analogue 3.5mm jack into a USB port that supplies the 5V power expected and even if you could that would be an analogue connection going to a device wanting digital. It's just not a thing you can do. Just plug it into a USB port like it's supposed to be, it really isn't that complicated.

Sloth

Yeah dude, i know it's not complicated i understand audio pretty perfectly for the most part. I was just asking if that was a thing you could do, thanks for the reply as well.