Gislon
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I've just upgraded to Win7 (32bit), and thought I'd give J River Media Centre 16 a go. Very good sound and easier interface than Foobar. But I have a problem with the Xonar auto sample rate.
I used to run foobar on XP with ASIO, and the Xonar card would switch sample rates automatically (with the new official driver released last year).
But with Win7, MC16 set to WASAPI (events) and the latest 1793 driver for the Asus, I don't think it's switching sample rate. There's no click, and audio at 96khz plays back with a bad hiss until I manually switch the card to the right sample rate.
I thought about going back to ASIO in MC16, but unlike Foobar it bypasses ALL volume controls. I don't have a pre-amp, so that's not a happy option (my wife made me add that bit).
So two questions:
1) Should the auto sample rate feature of the Xonar work with WASAPI, or does it only work with ASIO?
2) Does ASIO mode in J River really disable ALL the PC volume controls or am I missing one?
Any thoughts gratefully received. The card is feeding a pair of LINN LK85 power amps with aktiv crossovers, feeding a pair of Linn KATANs. It sounds very smooth and detailed, for a bargain second hand price. I play FLACs, at 16or 24bit and sample rates of 44.1 up to 192khz. WASAPI sounds sweeter than ASIO to me, so I would like to keep using it if I can.
Thanks, Gilson
I used to run foobar on XP with ASIO, and the Xonar card would switch sample rates automatically (with the new official driver released last year).
But with Win7, MC16 set to WASAPI (events) and the latest 1793 driver for the Asus, I don't think it's switching sample rate. There's no click, and audio at 96khz plays back with a bad hiss until I manually switch the card to the right sample rate.
I thought about going back to ASIO in MC16, but unlike Foobar it bypasses ALL volume controls. I don't have a pre-amp, so that's not a happy option (my wife made me add that bit).
So two questions:
1) Should the auto sample rate feature of the Xonar work with WASAPI, or does it only work with ASIO?
2) Does ASIO mode in J River really disable ALL the PC volume controls or am I missing one?
Any thoughts gratefully received. The card is feeding a pair of LINN LK85 power amps with aktiv crossovers, feeding a pair of Linn KATANs. It sounds very smooth and detailed, for a bargain second hand price. I play FLACs, at 16or 24bit and sample rates of 44.1 up to 192khz. WASAPI sounds sweeter than ASIO to me, so I would like to keep using it if I can.
Thanks, Gilson