Best Sound settings from Foobar 2000?
Dec 20, 2005 at 7:47 AM Post #2 of 22
i think your card support atleast 24bit. so go to playback and in "output data format" change 16bit to 24bit. if you want to upsample then in dsp manager, add resampler (ssrc), and in resample make it 96khz (i think your card support that much?). also in 'output' choose 'kernel streaming' or download asio plugin, since they dont get interfere by windows kmixer.
 
Dec 20, 2005 at 12:23 PM Post #3 of 22
Quote:

Originally Posted by terrymx
i think your card support atleast 24bit. so go to playback and in "output data format" change 16bit to 24bit. if you want to upsample then in dsp manager, add resampler (ssrc), and in resample make it 96khz (i think your card support that much?). also in 'output' choose 'kernel streaming' or download asio plugin, since they dont get interfere by windows kmixer.


Just in case you get noises (I do: pop and clicks when you do something else with the computer), you can lower the sampling rate to 48KHz without audible difference and then the CPU usage drops and there is no more noise. There is a guide of foobar setup in: http://www.ubernet.org/index.php?p=FoobarSetUp
 
Dec 20, 2005 at 4:45 PM Post #4 of 22
Why would you want to resample? It won't improve the sound, only going to cost you cpu cycles :p
 
Dec 20, 2005 at 4:54 PM Post #5 of 22
Don't do any resampling. I can't understand why people say that Audigy cards are so bad because the upsample sound, and at the same time want to upsample their own sound. Yeah, the other upsampling algorithms are so much better, oh yes. not.
 
Dec 20, 2005 at 4:59 PM Post #6 of 22
With creative cards it makes sense. They will resample everything to 48 KHz, but do this badly, the software resampler is just better at it. The revo however will just use the source sampling rate internally, so any resampling is pointless and might even make the sound worse.
 
Dec 22, 2005 at 11:03 AM Post #7 of 22
Quote:

Originally Posted by Xerion
Why would you want to resample? It won't improve the sound, only going to cost you cpu cycles :p


I agree. I did the install with one of those guides in this forum, and the resampler was used. But the native sapling rate is 44.1 KHz in CD, and makes no sense to resample. Probably is best to leave as it is, and this avoids problems. I think this may have something to do with the Envy drivers, because the hi-res out is set to 96 KHz, and probably won't work with 44.1KHz. I haven't tried yet.

EDIT: I just tried. Foobar and the av710 don't work together unless the resampler at 48KHz is used.
 
Dec 23, 2005 at 7:56 AM Post #8 of 22
DACs usually oversamples internally data to higher samplerates and therefore card may sound better if higher samplerates (e.g., 96k or 192k) are used. Anyway, you can check yourself that do it sound better with resampling, and if you don't hear any difference, resampling is not necessary.
 
Dec 24, 2005 at 6:37 PM Post #9 of 22
Quote:

Originally Posted by Xerion
Why would you want to resample? It won't improve the sound, only going to cost you cpu cycles :p


Not true. Both the SSRC and SRC resamplers improve the sound.

I have found that 24/96 is the best sound, better than 48 or 88.2. It wil probably work with your soundcard, you just need to configure it for 24/96.
 
Dec 25, 2005 at 1:39 AM Post #10 of 22
Quote:

Originally Posted by fjf
EDIT: I just tried. Foobar and the av710 don't work together unless the resampler at 48KHz is used.


Not really, my av710 works fine at 44.1hz.
 
Dec 28, 2005 at 9:59 PM Post #11 of 22
i have a revo 5.1 and i'm trying to tweak the settings to optimal, but i realize that when i set it to 24-bit fixed point in playback and enable Kernel Streaming for output, it won't work unless i set it back to 16-bit fixed point. it seems Kernel Streaming offers the greatest improvement so i left it like this, but is there a reason why i can't change both?

i just started using foobar2000 so i'm a newb at this...

i can't believe i've been using windows media player all this time....wmp sounds like crap compared to foobar. haha.
 
Dec 28, 2005 at 10:11 PM Post #12 of 22
You should tick the box next to the 'ouput data format' box, the one that says 'show all options'. You have to do this twice to enable this. Then select the option '24-bit fixed point padded to 32-bit'. This should work on the Revo, at least it does with me.
 
Dec 28, 2005 at 10:12 PM Post #13 of 22
okay, i know this is weird but.... 24-bit fixed point works with kernel streaming now....
confused.gif
uh.... is this possibly be because it's still in some kind of beta process?

thanks for the help though, cage. i'll try it either way.
 
Dec 28, 2005 at 10:22 PM Post #14 of 22
I don't know why it does that. I've had the same problem a few times, when it seems to work correctly, but I don't think 24-bit option actually works though. When you close Foobar and start it again it'll probably generate an error when you leave it on 24-bit. If you select the option padded to 32-bit it seems to work.
 
Dec 28, 2005 at 10:25 PM Post #15 of 22
ah well, i'm sure there's some kind of programming error. after all, it's not v1.0 yet.

is there a great difference between 16-bit fixed point and 24-bit fixed point anyways?

by the way, sorry to hear about your soundcard not living up to your expectations. =/ i hope the amp helps...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 2 (members: 0, guests: 2)
Back
Top