asymcon
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1. Have you tried Fidelizer?
2. Do you have any decent CD transport in your possession?
1. No, I haven't. Firstly it took me quite some time to set-up my studio PC and don't want any 3rd party app to ruin its settings or introduce unwanted side effects.
As I'm primarily using WASAPI when sequencing, the Endpoint Builder must work 100%.
BTW, this guide works too:
https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207359245-Optimising-your-PC-for-audio-on-Windows-7
https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207355205-Optimising-your-PC-for-Audio-on-Windows-10
But even that is a bit over the top. For example turning on system caching (giving background services higher priority) doesn't improve low-latency audio by measurable margin. Some of those tips were repurposed from Windows XP, which had some serious limitations in its kmixer and I guess system caching was thought as a workaround. Not an issue with Win7+
2. As a matter of fact I do. Panasonic SL-SX480. Its SNR far exceeds that of a CD, and also has pretty advanced noise shaping on oversampled PCM data.
Though lately don't get much use, as I'm fine with Clip+ which, surprise, sounds same to me, and is a lot smaller.