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post #16 of 29
6/30/11 at 6:35am

If an audio program can "hog" the output, ie: have exclusive rights over the sound card, then the system can't interfere with the sound output. Some audio programs have this feature.

 

tom: Do you understand sample rates?

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post #17 of 29
6/30/11 at 6:37am
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Originally Posted by kashtwa View Post

I have never really used  those functions..  i just saw that creative thought i was using 7.1 speakers.. changed it to Headphone.. but the EAX, Crystalizer etc was all turned off.


 

with my realtek sound when i select headphone the sound quality is bad but the sound is loud

 

when i select stereo its better

 

try changing to stereo and see if the sound quality improve

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post #18 of 29
6/30/11 at 6:44am
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Originally Posted by Currawong View Post

If an audio program can "hog" the output, ie: have exclusive rights over the sound card, then the system can't interfere with the sound output. Some audio programs have this feature.

 

tom: Do you understand sample rates?


do you mean wasabi and aiso

 

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post #19 of 29
6/30/11 at 6:44am
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Do i want some plugin for Winamp to take Exclusive Right over the soundcard or just let it be?

 

In Winamp DSP/Effect i have

iZotope Ozone installed but i read somewhere that when using FLAC the worst thing you can do is to use something like that.

 

I downloaded ASIO4all v2.10 yesterday and have that installed as well.

 

I also downloaded J River Media Center to try it but i'm more content with using Winamp as music player.. it's stuck with me for so long..


Edited by kashtwa - 6/30/11 at 6:45am
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post #20 of 29
6/30/11 at 6:50am
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Originally Posted by kashtwa View Post

Do i want some plugin for Winamp to take Exclusive Right over the soundcard or just let it be?

 

In Winamp DSP/Effect i have

iZotope Ozone installed but i read somewhere that when using FLAC the worst thing you can do is to use something like that.

 

I downloaded ASIO4all v2.10 yesterday and have that installed as well.

 

I also downloaded J River Media Center to try it but i'm more content with using Winamp as music player.. it's stuck with me for so long..


 

i dont know about winamp i didnt try

 

search google for it

 

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&xhr=t&q=winamp+asio&cp=9&pf=p&sclient=psy&source=hp&aq=0&aqi=&aql=&oq=winamp+as&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=bac1613afc251958&biw=1024&bih=664

 

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=winamp+wasapi&aq=0&aqi=g2g-b1&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=bac1613afc251958&biw=1024&bih=664

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post #21 of 29
6/30/11 at 6:58am
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Yes going to get an ASIO4ALL plugin for my Winamp and try to get that to fly... problem is i barely know what im doing :)

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post #22 of 29
6/30/11 at 7:01am

try this

 

http://www.winamp.com/plugin/asio-output-plugin/156466

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post #23 of 29
6/30/11 at 7:12am
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I am running the ASIO Output plugin in Winamp now (ASIO4ALL v2.10) Sounds nice although i had to lower the ASIO Buffer Size to 64 Samples to get rid of the disturbances in the playback.

 

I don't know what to do with the following settings below

 

Latency Compensation

In: 0 Samples (default)

Out: 0 Samples (default)

 

Options

Allow Pull Mode (WaveRT) *not checked (default)*

Buffer Offset:4 ms (default)

Always Resamble 44.1kHz <-> 48kHz *not checked (default)*

Force WDM Driver to 16 bit *not checked (default)*

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post #24 of 29
6/30/11 at 7:47am
Thread Starter 

Downloaded and installed the WASAPI plugin for Winamp and it doesn't lag/sound bad when i skip songs compared to ASIO

 

Input stream:
16 bit PCM encoding in 2.0 (Stereo) setup. 44100Hz rate
MAIKO buffer/latency: 0 samples (0 µs)

Output stream:
24 bit (32bit padded) PCM encoding in 7.1 (surround) setup. 44100Hz rate
Client buffer: 21504 samples (487620 µs)

 

Pretty much haven't changed any default settings..

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post #25 of 29
6/30/11 at 6:28pm
Thread Starter 

Would the Fiio E7 + E9 Combo make any difference even though i have a SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio with my HD 598 (50Ω) 

 

Worth to mention is that i don't have any external desktop speakers i plan to use it only with my current setup and if i have to i will have to update my soundcard as well.

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post #26 of 29
7/1/11 at 5:43am
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do you mean wasabi and aiso

 


Do you understand what exactly 44.1 kHz and 16-bit sound actually means? 

 

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post #27 of 29
7/1/11 at 6:59am
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Originally Posted by Currawong View Post




Do you understand what exactly 44.1 kHz and 16-bit sound actually means? 

 

 

why is this question

 

yes i understand

 

its for the quality of the sound
 

 


Edited by tom2011 - 7/1/11 at 7:02am
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post #28 of 29
7/1/11 at 12:00pm
Thread Starter 

Currawong would be great if you could explain as im not really sure on it.. honestly  although im reading in the forum trying suck up as much info as i can handle at the moment although i have a very bad memory lol, nevermind read http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/415361/24bit-vs-16bit-the-myth-exploded


Edited by kashtwa - 7/1/11 at 3:43pm
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post #29 of 29
7/2/11 at 5:00am
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I have recently realized and noticed that on my HD 598 i can feel the left earphone vibrate in certain songs were there are some kind of base base, while on my right earphone i don't notice this at all.. I double checked the position and it looks fine.. Anyone who have experienced something similar? I haven't "burned in" my headphones or anything in the past.. they are fairly new as my old ones cracked and i got a replacement from Sennhesier batch  "2011-04-07" Should i burn these in and could this be related to be not having them burned in?

 

I was listening to "Michael Bubble - Crazy Love 02 All of me" earlier and i hear his vocals very well although when  the orchestra comes in it kind of cuts into my ears which may be a result of me having the volume tuned up too high in the first place. I read a over a post in the forum earlier about calibrating the flats with SineGen and EQ+ but i didn't get it to work so i gave up. Obviously i had the volume too high since it cut into my ears..  but the music tracks differs a bit from eachother even though they are lossless.


Edited by kashtwa - 7/2/11 at 7:08am
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