DVD Audio Playback

[ScottStevens1024]

Hi Guys

I am currently looking at building a shuttle box (Athlon, Intel, whatever not sure yet) and had a question about DVD audio. If I have a standard IDE DVD-Rom Drive a suitible sound card and some kicking 5.1 speakers (thinking logitech as the fit the budget and have about 280W of power) would i be able to play DVD-A discs in their full audio glory?

Any help would be appreciated, or am i barking up the wrong tree?

 

[r2k]

For DVD-Audio in its full glory you need:
1. A sound card that can play audio material at 24-bit/192KHz resolution (stereo) and/or 24-bit/96KHz resolution (5.1).
2. A DVD-ROM drive
3. suitable Software

Now, as of today, the only sound cards that come bundled with a DVD-Audio player are Creative's Audigy2 and Audigy2 ZS series. If you've got another sound card you should buy suitable versions of your favourite software DVD players e.g. PowerDVD or WinDVD. Anyway, a normal DVD-ROM drive would suffice.