To clarify, the current solution for Windows 7 64-bit is to download and install the XP64 4.60b drivers with XP SP2 compatibility mode enabled? If so, I will update the OP.

Thanks for the response. Have you used it for recording and/or do you use ASIO? I'm wondering if there are any differences or problems with latency and high-res output; I understand that the Windows 7 audio stack does some resampling of its own that I would like to avoid.

What's the current state of the 0404 USB in Windows 7 64-bit? I am about to upgrade from Windows XP and while I understand that 64-bit is the future, I'm mostly concerned about whether or not my E-MU 0404 USB will work properly or not in the new OS. I've done some research and there does not...

Try uninstalling the drivers in Device Manager and starting from scratch. Not sure where you picked up the 5.12 drivers.

erod, the E-MU 0204 USB does not have any volume control for the main outputs, nor any speaker-level outputs, so in that sense it is like any other DAC. You will need volume control (preamplification) and power (power amplification) after the audio interface in order to make it work with passive...

16 mW @ 22 ohms seems awfully low for 600-ohm headphones. My impression of the headphone section on the 0404 USB (which is rated slightly higher at 20 mW @ 22 ohms) is that the sound quality is nothing special, unlike the main outputs. It seems more like a practical inclusion than a major...

If ASIO4All is working properly it should sound identical to the built-in ASIO driver because they both should be outputting bit-perfect audio; if you hear a difference between the two, something is wrong. Additionally, ASIO4All is a wrapper that was designed for sound cards that did not have...

Open foobar2000 preferences (Ctrl+P) and look at Playback -> Output. If it is set to DS (DirectSound), all audio will be resampled to the device's current sampling rate, usually 44.1 kHz, though it looks like you may have manually changed it to 48.0 kHz beforehand. You can set it to other...

DACs employ oversampling, not upsampling (though some do also upsample), but it's still not equivalent to using a higher native sampling rate.   I've explained my point about local dynamic range as clearly as I can and people still think I'm talking about low-level signals. Perhaps someone...

Quote: The Nyquist theorem is perfect in theory, imperfect in practice. No real-world filters can brickwall from 22.05 kHz to 0 Hz without severely affecting the rest of the frequency range. To compromise, the cut-off frequency is moved further back into the audible range to allow for a...

Even though my point was about bit-depth, you are reiterating one of gregorio's assumptions about sampling rate that was disproved a few pages into his thread. There are instruments with overtones that reach past 50 kHz, in particular a lot of metallic percussion instruments (cymbals, etc.). In...

Quote:   Agreed. I wasn't trying to claim that everyone has perfect hearing, just that the accepted range of human hearing is around 20 Hz to 20 kHz. That's from birth. Due to presbycusis and exposure to loud noise, frequency response diminishes over time.   Yes, systems capable of...

Very good question. If the 1616M had a volume pot, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat. The problem with pots (analog pots, at least, like the one the 0404 USB has) is that they eventually get dust in them and become scratchy.

  Quote: Yes, 20 to 20 kHz is the established metric for the average range of human hearing. No disputes there. However, as stated earlier, higher sampling rates can yield more accurate frequency response within that audible range.   gregorio's explanation hinges on the idea that...

  Quote:   You're talking about upsampling, I'm talking about content natively recorded at a higher sampling rate. Quote: I agree with the point that as precision increases, the ability to perceive differences decreases. The question is, what are the limits of human...