Chaintech AV-710 setup guide (revised)

[gychang]

I hear CMoy is one to get, is there a particular website to order this? Would appreciate any specific information on where to get the headphone amp for my Grado SR60.

thanks,

gychang

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Originally Posted by Bleed just got my chaintech AV710 today . now all i need is an amp.

 

[sumone]

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Originally Posted by Cyclone What rig are you running on? If its an older slow one then turn off slow mode and see if that helps any.

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Originally Posted by sumone I'm using windows xp professional on a 1.33ghz amd athlon w/350MB of ram.

Even without using the resampler I have problems...so unchecking slow mode didn't do anything. It has to be the drivers. Are there any non-WDM drivers availble? I forgot what the other type was called?

 

[Atomicated]

I tried going through the guide but after settin gup kernel streaming foobar gives me this error: ERROR (foo_out_ks) : KS output error: error opening device.

Any ideas?

Edit: Nevermind, I had some of control panel settings wrong. Listening now and hearing a couple new sounds in songs I didn't know was there. Thanks for the great thread.

 

[onopalot]

I have trouble flashing to prodigy. What chip and crystal combination are you supposed to select? I tried the first one and it just said fail, something about not seeing the card in bios or something.

 

[Cyclone]

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Originally Posted by onopalot I have trouble flashing to prodigy. What chip and crystal combination are you supposed to select? I tried the first one and it just said fail, something about not seeing the card in bios or something.

You can flash the chaintech? thats news to me, what do you gain/lose by flashing it? and where can i download the flash and instructions?.

 

[onopalot]

Yeah dude, its in the guide, not really step by step tho, at least i follow it, but it fails, and i dunno why,

 

[Alpha 904]

One thing that I have noticed is that when setting the Chaintech to high sample rate mode, it says that it is outputing at 92Khz, even though the Wolfson dac is capable up to 192Khz. Could someone please explain this situation? In addition, do any of the jumpers affect sound quality for the alt out port? (above the SPDIF port, used for hi sample rate mode)

 

[andrew3199]

Two questions !! Is there any advantage (as far as sound quality goes) to using Foobar as opposed to Itunes,? I am also wondering if the Chaintech would benefit from a burn in period in the same way as an amp would.

 

[Arc]

Hey Guys,

I now own an AV-710 that runs into my amp which drives my new Audio Technica AD700’s. (Yes I know AD700’s are very low impendence)

Anyway, everything is working well in Hi-Res and the sound is excellent; I am very happy except,,,,,,,

I can play a CD in Windows Media Player and it all works,,,,,but when I try and run a movie file with media player all sound gets kicked offline.

It’s easy to fix, I have created a shortcut in my quick-launch. I just click on Audio Desk and the sound reloads and I can watch the clip.

I am wondering however if anyone knows how to remedy this small glitch?

I am using the latest drivers (Envy24_Family_Drivers_V143d) and I have this set as the default in the main windows Control Panel.

Please HELP.

 

[dens]

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Originally Posted by Arc Hey Guys, I now own an AV-710 that runs into my amp which drives my new Audio Technica AD700’s. (Yes I know AD700’s are very low impendence) Anyway, everything is working well in Hi-Res and the sound is excellent; I am very happy except,,,,,,, I can play a CD in Windows Media Player and it all works,,,,,but when I try and run a movie file with media player all sound gets kicked offline. It’s easy to fix, I have created a shortcut in my quick-launch. I just click on Audio Desk and the sound reloads and I can watch the clip. I am wondering however if anyone knows how to remedy this small glitch? I am using the latest drivers (Envy24_Family_Drivers_V143d) and I have this set as the default in the main windows Control Panel. Please HELP.

Try the latest drivers, might help.
Envy24_Family_Drivers_V451c
http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/dr...vers_V451c.zip

 

[Arc]

Thanks dens,


Downloaded,

Installed,

Problem Solved.


I am one happy Head-Fi member.

My AV-710 to Amp to AD-700's ROCKS btw.

 

[Tachikoma]

I wonder why my chaintech hasn't really trounced my previous onboard card.... even after plugging on the head amp... doing AB tests didn't reveal any huge differences in sound quality. Using the new Phillips SHP 895 =P

My settings:
Kernal streaming (buffer set to something around 500)
resampler (SSRC) 96000, slow mode not activated
using hi res mode.
Everything else follows the guide.

The chaintech is the first non-onboard card I've ever owned

 

[Xakepa]

I'm not sure why you refer to 96KHz as WM8728 "native" frequency. That DAC could run from 32KHz to 192KHz according to spec sheets - and it does!

I'm running FB2000 in Kernel Streaming mode w/o any resampling in "2 channel" mode of ver 1.52 VIA drivers, with modest 2.1 system hooked up on channels 1&2 (i.e. VIA DAC), and CMoy->Sennies HD201 on 7&8, and I have no issues. The sound in the cans comes from Wolfson, and the one in the speakers - from VIA.

I tried resampling up and down. For 8KHz sample rate the driver's software was intelligent enough to upsample to the WM lower limit - 32KHz (sound was awful of course). On the other hand, if I exceed 48KHz "2 channel" mode crashes, as VIA DAC can't handle 96KHz. So if one wants 96KHz resampled sound, eighter you have to mess up with the wires, or you have to switch to "2 channels hi-res", muting the speakers.

However, 16/44.1 original resampled to 24/96 definitely sounds better in the cans...but can't make much of a difference for the speakers.

Hope it helps.

 

[bonjonno]

I got my card from newegg today. the plastic envelope the card was in was open with the seal broken, but the date stamp from Chinese manufacturer says October 2005 and it's still September! Anyway, it installed easily. I started with the newest drivers v473b. Can't get kernel streaming to work. So I'm using Direct sound v2. Wave Out also works. High sample rate 2 ch out of the black rear jack. Foobar ver is .8.3. Also if I hibernate (which I much prefer) none of my media players will play after coming out of hibernation. You click play and it's as if you didn't. I remember reading a thread about this but I just read the entire guide again and can't find it. So then I installed drivers v451c which people seem to have success with. Different control panel but exactly the same results. I'm running XP sp2 on an athlon system xp1600. Any help? Thanks.

 

[bonjonno]

OK. I partially fixed my own problems. Switched from hi resolution output to 2 channel. Still outputs on the rear two channels. Resolution is now set at 48kHz. Sounds the same to me. Hibernation and kernel streaming now work. However digital output is now disabled and that's a drag because I would like to run that separately to the DI on my Pioneer theater receiver for when I view DVDs.

I find I prefer DirectSound to KS. I like the fade-in/out feature. So far, every mode I've listened to sounds a bit brittle on the high end. Don't know what everyone is so happy about with this card. I believe my Delta 44 is much smoother. Of course it costs much more. i'll continue to work with it.