When watching videos and playing games on the computer, sound is an indispensable important "condiment", not to mention that some small partners are used to listening to music on the computer. I don't know if you have noticed that the audio hardware technology on the computer has not been updated for a long time, until recently Audiophile Style launched an audio-specific SSD. But is this SSD really useful?
First of course, we have to see what this audio-specific SSD is, from the configuration point of view, it uses a Realtak main control chip, equipped with 1TB 3D TLC flash memory, but runs in SLC analog mode, so the capacity is 333GB, independent power supply, the board and audio circuit common electrolytic capacitors, large crystal oscillators and other components. It is said that the music output is fuller and smoother than the average TLC SSD with "thickness".
From the design point of view, independent crystal oscillator, independent power supply design and electrolytic capacitors and other components can indeed make the ripple of hard disk power supply more pure, and the jitter of the signal is smaller. So can you improve the audio effect? At least from the current digital music storage, transmission, playback mode... It should be useless. In fact, many similar audio artifacts, such as audio flash memory cards, lossless memory, etc., are useless, why is this?
The reason is not complicated, that is, the current audio has actually been fully digitized, the storage is only a certain moment, a certain frequency of the volume level, accurate and rapid transmission of these signals for the hard disk, SSD, flash memory, memory is not a thing at all, after all, the requirements of other digital signals are actually exactly the same, and even higher requirements, such as the audio signal itself is not large, and the error is a little noisy, programs and application files error probability can not run directly.
In the case that the transmission of digital audio itself will not have any problems, what really affects the audio effect is the line on which the digital signal is restored to audio and transmitted. For example, the capacitors and crystal oscillators used in the SSD mentioned earlier can make the power supply ripple more pure, which is more useful in the line of "interpreting" the digital signal and transmitting to the headphone speaker, which can reduce the signal changes caused by other currents and reduce additional noise. In addition, if you want to add analog halls, enhance accents, etc., they are also in this part of the circuit.
So small partners who want to get better audio effects, don't spend small money on these "artifacts", what should really be invested is a motherboard with optimized audio lines, better headphone speakers, and even silent fans and silent power supplies are much more useful than these artifacts. Here by the way, the consumer-grade audio file sample rate is high, and it is not a big problem for the current hardware, so the motherboard audio design can be optimized, and the model that blows super bull and invests too much does not make much sense.