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4/27/10 at 3:34pm
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I tried to use a SOX resampler with my new Little Dot DAC + Hiface BNC and I got scary crakles and pops at 192 rate. I figured no biggie, I don't want to resample music anyways.

Well, today and I tried to play a native 192 rate FLAC file, and I also got crackles and pops, making it impossible to listen to the music (I fear damaging my speakers/headphones)

I have an ASUS D2x installed in the system as well, but I have set my foobar player to use WASAPI with the hiface device as its player.

Using Win7 64 bit and 1.03 drivers for the hiface.

I tried using the DPC LATENCY checker linked in the hiface thread, and my max latency is only 380, under the 500 limit. Average was around 150. DPC Latency Checker


UPDATE: I tried running RCA Coax out of my Asus Xonar D2x and got similar problems with 192khz files.

Seems it might be a LD DAC_I issue? Any help?

96 sample rate appears fine. This is on a quad 2.66 ghz system, SSD HD, etc.


2nd UPDATE:

I downloaded J River Media Center, to see if the problem was somehow in foobar. Same issue, but slightly different. J River Media Center will NOT PLAY any file unless the correct sample rate is set under the "Advanced Tab" on the properties section of Windows Playback Devices.

See screen shot:

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5/20/10 at 5:29am

Don't know much about J River and WASAPI (what your using in Vista and 7 to bypass mixer).

Try XMplay:

Player @ http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html

using the wasapi plugin @ http://www.un4seen.com/download.php?xmp-wasapi

and flac plugin @ http://www.un4seen.com/download.php?xmp-flac

 

Also saw you was asking for a linux driver in another thread for the hiFace, and it's not out yet.

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post #3 of 3
5/20/10 at 9:57am

The problem is not your DAC or the HiFace, it is your computer.  You need faster I/O to keep-up with 24/192.  I have an older XP laptop that will not do 192 either.  Same result.  This is not unusual.

 

If you have a Mac Mini, it will do it.

 

Steve N.

Empirical Audio

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