No love for magnums? - Page 2

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Originally Posted by maverickronin 

Well obviously it can't be bit perfect to the music if its playing two sounds at the same time.  Does that really matter though?  You wouldn't be listening to two separate tracks at the same time.

 

If you just don't like the system sounds interrupting your music then WASAPI in exclusive mode is a good way to automatically disable them when listening to music and automatically enable them when you're done.  With normal direct sound or wave out the extra sounds stop affecting fidelity as soon as they stop playing so it doesn't really hurt anything assuming you actually want to or don't mind hearing them.

 

At least in 7. From what I understand about XP the mixer works like that most of the time but is more prone to doing weird things like using SRC for no good reason and using its terrible algorithm which is just designed to be super fast only good enough to play the system sounds on top of whatever sample rate you're using.  At least that's what I've heard.  I never had a problem with it though and I only use XP with my work computer right now.

Ah ok yeah that's what I've been wondering.Looks like I'll abandon the WASAPI method then...it's a chore having to close Foobar whenever I wanna watch youtube or anything, if DirectSound is playing bitperfect whenever I dont have other things playing then yeah that's the most optimal thing for me.

WASAPI mode sounds noticeably better to me. There's more to it than just bit-perfect or not. Otherwise there would be no difference between Foobar and JPlay. In actuality, the difference is considerable.

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Originally Posted by jerg 

Ah ok yeah that's what I've been wondering.Looks like I'll abandon the WASAPI method then...it's a chore having to close Foobar whenever I wanna watch youtube or anything, if DirectSound is playing bitperfect whenever I dont have other things playing then yeah that's the most optimal thing for me.

If you hit stop instead of pause it should release the sound device back to other programs.  At least my versions of foobar and WASAPI plugin do.

if you're not in exclusive mode then any number of random windows sounds.

Topic guys!

Since someone mentioned me, I do still reckon the Magnums are excellent, especially in value.  It's probably easier to list what they don't do well than what they do: Big soundstage, isolation and long-listening time comfort.

Full Magnum upgrade, making use of your MS2i cups, is the next headphone on my buying list.

I plan on loving them very much!

I will ask for black anodizing of all the metal parts, including Magnum buttons.

*Okay no... it's only the second headphone on my buying list. Right now someone has just planted a seed in my brain and I have a desire for a vintage RS1, which I never had until a week ago, dang!

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Originally Posted by Maxvla 

I personally don't consider anything Grado related (as far as headphones) end game related.

Have you heard the Joseph Grado hp1000(i)? Outside of the hp1000 and maybe the ps1 (original), I pretty much agree.

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Originally Posted by Maxvla 

Neither of those. SR60/80/125/225/325 RS2 PS500/1000 HF1/2 GS1000 are what I've listened to. RS2 is the best of that group for me, but still not something I would have in my collection.

Got you, yeah none of those are hi-end imo either. The hp1000(i) is very impressive though.

At least Maxvla left the RS1 out of the list.

Oh I thought that it was so because you considered it high-end.