[andre.beat]

Hi.
My motherboard (Asus P5K-E/WiFi-AP) uses the AD1988B chip for onboard sound. Does anyone know if it outputs bit-perfect audio on the digital out, because I'm thinking of using it to feed a EMU 0404 USB.

Also when I use the AD1988B "soundcard" and I want to listen to 24-bit/96 kHz files I just set the output on foobar to 24-bit, anyone with experience with this product can tell me if this is the correct procedure? There is no option to select the sample rate or the bits on the soundcard properties so I guess it automatically detects what it is being fed.

Edit: Forgot to mention I'm using Kernel Streaming in foobar. I just tried ASIO and noticed the output format option on foobar is now greyed out, so I suppose ASIO automatically adjusts to what format (bits) and sample rate the file as.

 

[Tarkovsky]

Leave the output at 24bit on foobar because this shouldn't affect 16bit recordings.

 

[sejarzo]

Are you running an OS incompatible with the 0404 USB drivers from E-MU, or have some other configuration issue, that prevents you from driving the 0404 USB via USB?

 

[andre.beat]

I might use linux from time to time but I mainly use Windows XP so drivers are not an issue. Let's say I'm just curious and want to try it out