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...

Quote: No, unfortunately the E-MU 0404 USB is the only one of their interfaces with a Main Output volume pot.

To summarize, more information = more accuracy. No one needs 144 dB of dynamic range, but that's not the only benefit of using 24-bit. No one needs frequency response up to 96 kHz, but that's not the only benefit of using 192 kHz. Etc.   monoethylene...

  Quote: That's not necessarily what I'm getting at (though when you say "not that much," I would say that perhaps any improvement is worthwhile even if it is not perceptible to everyone). You are speaking of dynamic range. I'm saying, regardless of signal level, there are more...

I think naike was getting at the fact that a lot of DAWs and sound applications can internally process the sound at higher bit-depths than what hardware supports (32-bit for Foobar, 48-bit for Pro Tools, etc.). Even in professional studios, most hardware sound cards and DACs only support up to...

Sample rate conversion doesn't get much better than Voxengo r8brain, especially for free. http://www.voxengo.com/product/r8brain/   Check out the graphs here if you're interested in sample rate converter comparisons. Voxengo r8brain is listed under "r8brain." http://src.infinitewave.ca/  ...

Since I bought the lossless version, 24-bit WAV is the only format available to me. I'll compare them to the 16-bit/44.1 kHz mixes if they are ever released in a lossless format. Upconverting lossy music is pointless (as I'm sure you know) so I hope they didn't do that. It should be easy enough...

Just a minor observation that fellow Radiohead fans and Head-Fiers might appreciate. Those who ordered 'The King of Limbs' online now have access to two new b-sides, "Supercollider" and "The Butcher," both of which were released on vinyl last week. The interesting part is that the lossless...

Wha? When's the last time you went to a rock concert where you didn't have to stand in order to see the stage, even with chairs in the venue? 

Either the PCI slot is bad or the card is bad. All motherboards should at least detect it even if the OS doesn't recognize what it is. Use compressed air to blow any potential dust out of the slot and off of the card's contacts, then try re-inserting it.

I hesitate to post about this because I'm particularly sensitive to it, but I've noticed progressively more auto-tune used on SW's vocals in recent projects. There's some very clear auto-tuning going on throughout 'Welcome to My DNA,' and it robs some of the emotion from the vocals. Bummer for me.