Oh, right. Great.   I found that MPD with GMPC works best (and adjusts bit-depth according to files - although you've mentioned that this bears little significance). Audacious comes close with working very well too. These two programs disable software control altogether.   DeadbeeF and...

how do I fix this?   I tried Audacious and it seems that it allows you to 'set' a bit-depth and not let the bit-depth be determined by the audio file. The good thing about Audacious is that it allows you to disable all software volume control, so essentially the output is perfect as far as I...

Tried playing something else whilst listening to audio.   There is just one audio device that is built into the mobo, so card 0 outputs to HDMI and card 1 outputs to PCH, which contains the SPDIF out. When I play something on soundcloud while listening to music on deadbeef, it plays via HDMI...

Quote:   Gives me     and my asound.conf reads   Still able to alter volume on deadbeef and clementine. :(

Thanks All done and ALSA configured accordingly playing through my DAC.   However, I am still able to control the volume of my playback on Deadbeef by tinkering with the volume bar. I don't think that is supposed to happen if I am streaming bit perfect via SPDIF

Thanks   I haven't tinkered with the alsa config file (/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf) but can't find anything within it that would suggest this. All the defaults just appear as a list without any further strings below it. I assume that this means that bitdepth default hasn't been defined -...

Hi,   Lengthy topic and it seems like most of the chat here is trying to get Bit Perfect via USB   If I'm trying to set up my Benchmark DAC1 to receive digital out via S/PDIF would it be simply using deadbeef to use output plugin as ALSA and output device as HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Digital for...

Don't speaker companies do the same?

OUCH Feel you bro. So sorry for that I felt my heart drop.

cheers guys

Sorry, but I tried Kind of Blue with HD600 and K701 The HD600 are better by miles (no pun intended) Must be the alcohol.

Single here but would never date someone who doesn't have a taste in music. For example, Me "What music do you like?" Her "Everything but <insert genre here>" No preference means no interest.

don't worry i don't get it too :S

All the best, Rick.

DAC/Transport A ModWright Transporter would solve everything.