[ogewo]

[partially from a post in a Headphone forum thread]

Apparently 24bit ASIO support for the Audigy 2 ZS is not yet available. ASIO works when setting foobar to 16bit and resample to 48khz, but is that going to be better than KS @ 24bit padded to 32bit and resampled to 96khz? Radar says use ASIO but I feel like KS might be as good or better, at least until moving to a chaintech av710.

EDIT: To get ASIO to work I had to install the Kx drivers. They Swap the front/rear outputs because supposedly the rears sound better. Different codecs or something. But you can't use KS with the Kx drivers. So Kx + rear outputs + ASIO(16bit / 48khz) or Creative drivers + front outputs + Kernel Streaming(24bit padded to 32bit / 96khz).

 

[Mr.Radar]

I wasn't aware that ASIO above 16/48 didn't work with the Audigy 2 ZS so you'd probably be better off with the Creative drivers + KS at 24(padded to 32)/96. And you might still be able to use the rear outputs with KS and Foobar2000 (use the Move Stereo to Rear Channels DSP).

 

[Richteralan]

the upsampling and 24/pad32-bit output format in Kernel Streaming Output degrades audio quality

 

[Mr.Radar]

But it's still better than resampling to 48KHz at 16-bits (which is unavoidable with Audigy cards anyways). And with KS at 24/96 or 24/192 it's bit-perfect (i.e. Creative's drivers/DSP leave the audio alone). Also, how is resampling in software inferior to Creative's hardware resampling?