ASIO4All Explanation - Page 32

clean up the *.inf files in your windows dir...yes, that ploytec thingie is completely worthless...it crashed one of my machines badly several times at the installation w/ an M-Audio Audiophile USB

you can also specify the driver manually as not being PNP, click on "have disk"

Yeah it won't uninstall. The Dacmagic works fine on my laptop but I can't get the old drivers back on my PC. Which inf files is it

Phew got it working again.

Not sure what I did but maybe it was deleting some of the inf files (some wouldn't let me) also went to device manager and clicked uninstall and checked delete software.

That usb-audio driver sucks, they tried to keep it on my PC so I had to buy it!!

/windows/inf/oem*.inf

open them all, delete those that say ploytec, then wipe the matching .pnf files too

but you can also go the "have disk" way, it will disable the PNP detection.

Thanks leeperrry

i got asio4all working at 32/192 finally. i had to regedit and disable the soundcards control gui. then i had to remap the output since there was none. i am sticking with ks though. with out the control panel i can only have sound from a asio enabled app. ks is working great. i find dumping 32/192 into the dac1 toslink provides better sound than bit perfect. it's just for radio which sounds pretty bad anyways.

i just got a kimber ag mini since i did not think i would find a small enough toslink cable to go through the floor. now i just wasted another few hundred bucks. oh well. no, i don't sell stuff i bought for less money sorry.

music_man

ploytec usb-audio has crashed my computer many times during installation. Over a year ago mbd2884 (now banned and posts deleted) brought it up in the old compass thread and everyone who tried it liked it better than asio4all, but some people's computers had major issues installing.

i am assuming it only works with usb devices?

i'll add, the wolfson in the chaintech is not very short of the dac1. of course i am playing 128kbps radio. so i might not be able to really judge that.

music_man

Sorry for the late reply, didn't subscribe, but yes, usb-audio asio only works with usb. Asio4all still sounds great though, and it doesn't crash your computer during installation ;).

2.10 final's out btw: http://www.asio4all.com/

I have a question about bit perfect. I listen at work and was using kernel streaming and I used Wasapi at home with foobar 1.7 and mostly flac files. I was listening to the National, and everything just sounded awful. It hissed about as loud and evenly with the lyrics, and anything that went low did the same. So I bought a behringer A202, and had the same problem. I figured then that KS, and WASAPI must be the problem and so I tried ASIO4ALL. It sounds just like it should now. No hiss, or noise, or at least not enough to notice, and definitely not enough to ruin the sound. So I'm wondering why do KS and WASAPI leave hiss and ASIO4ALL don't. I thought they all bypassed the Windows mixer, offering bit perfect audio. Is this common, and why would that happen?

There are devices that have compatibility issues with WASAPI, having distorted sound after some time, and Kernel Streaming was never a long term solution, as it is the output method with the most issues.