I was referring to RME Soundcards (and others) that offer Coax and Optical outputs as well as their own drivers which bypass the Windows ones

My first post says nothing about "motherboard" cards. Please don't misquote

My only reason for taking you up on this is what I consider to be your Incendiary remarks saying "If you don't care about quality then use a Mac" and "Macs are not used for mainstream commercial work yet."

I'm far from an Apple guy but use both OSX and Windows (and other OS) machines on a daily basis. Each have their advantages, particularly for certain applications, but trying to infer that one is better or more capable than the other has little accuracy in today's world

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