[EliasGwinn]

Originally Posted by 5Kurt

Elias, thank you very much for the answers.

I got one last question. How is Vista compared to WinXp sonically with DAC-1. Is it worth the upgrade or shall we stick with XP?

Vista handles native audio totally different then XP, but not necessarily better. Where XP will pass the audio at the original sample-rate (or the highest presented to kmixer), Vista has a setting to choose the output sample-rate. It then converts everything to that sample-rate. The sample-rate conversion is very well designed, however, and although it is not bit-transparent, it causes very little distortion.

To answer your question about upgrading, I don't think its necessary for the sake of audio, but things may change in the near future, as fixes and updates come out.

I should add that all the Vista testing we did was on Vista Beta 2, so there may be things different in the current release then what we had.