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I noticed that. I also noticed my Soundmax HD Audio card wasn't set for 192k. I'm testing now. Has anyone had any luck with this card however?
Maybe I just need a different sound card. Does anyone know a decently working but lower cost solution.
You need latest driver for Soundmax adjusted to 192kHz in it's control panel and also in Window7>Sounds> Settings (both playback/recording)
Better cheap solution is Realtek 192kHz on board. But you'll need other motherboard.
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I know this may sound silly but do I need to feed the 19k from the Omnia to the input for the SoundMax? Or if your just using RDS does it even need that from the omnia processor?
No you don't. You need to turn ON RDS only in ST and send that signal to Omnia. Like you do with hardware RDS unit.
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don't want to replace the omnia processor, rather I just want to use ST for a RDS device. Maybe in the future I may decide to just replace the processor IF it can't do the job with the current setup.
Your choice. I can tell you that i recently replaced Omnia.6 with ST at one station, and they are now very happy - Mostly because 2 reasons. Way better sound (but really depends on preset) and they sold their Omnia, bought ST and still money in pocket.