foobar much better with ks than wasapi here!

i know this goes against everything that has been said. the sound quality and especially imaging is much better with ks on my system. wasapi does not let me choose 32 bit but ks does if that makes the difference but i doubt thats it. i am using pphs ultra and going to try sox but i think sox is lower quality. i am using 32/192 to the soundcard,192 from the sounnd card going to the dac. i have to do this since there is no other way with this soundcard. i cannot do bit perfect. maybe that is why ks is better, i don't know. the fact is it is far better than wasapi on my system. it is hotter,more lively and has much better soundstage and air. i just figured i'd tell about it since it is worth a try for anyone.

edit: it is 32 bit. i tried ks with 24 bit. wasapi does not allow me to use 32 bit. i know i should not be able to hear this technically. it must be something with my hardware. sox is also better which does not make much sense. there is simply much better soundstage and air around the instruments.

now, if anyone knows a way i can get wasapi working with 32 bit i bet i''d be even better off.

i started off by saying it did not make sense. i have no idea why this is. the av-710 in this machine. it's the card. i have a much better card in another machine and wasapi is the best of course.

sorry i did not reply i broke my toe yesterday. it will not work at 44.1. the bottom line is this is a 8 year old computer running win 7 and nothing really works at all. i do have a couple of nice i7 machines. one with a lynx22 that sounds great. i did not really want to toss this machine in the trash thats all. i am fully aware of all the stuff to do with the av710. it just won't work on this machine.

ks has a little hotter sound that i like on this machine. i understand i should be running wasapi. well, i guess it is time to toss this. xnor, you are correct in everything you said. i already know this.

ok. i got it working bit perfect. i am an idiot. i had the windows mixer checked at 192hz. so i could not change any settings in the envy panel. duh. i like j. river. just because it is cool. foobar should sound the same no matter what anyone says i suppose.

wow was i wrong! 16/48(the format of my media stream),wasapi is by far better than resampling in foobar. let the lavry do it's job. it is also better than jriver. i think this has just been confirmed in another thread anyways. you were correct xnor. the computer is working fine now that i unlocked the format in windows mixer.

ok thanks. i am not using a resampler now. my stream is 16/48 and i am using wasapi output at 16 bit but i will try 24 like you said. i have the soundcard set at 48khz or it would not play of course. it seems to sound much better than resampling. i am only using the toslink output to a dac that is upsampling. it is probably best to just let the dac do it's job i suppose.