Tisdawan
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I use Foobar to play music (FLAC-files) with kernel streaming through s/pdif-out. The object being to bypass as much as possible the onboard VIA AC'97 soundchip and obtain a bit-perfect s/pdif signal going to my stereo (does Foobar bypass the onboard sound completely when outputting through s/pdif?)
I just recently got a upsampling DAC and now I’m more than a bit confused on how player settings and DAC interact.
The dac upsamples 44.1khz - 96/192 khz and increases the word length to 24 bits (adding eight bits of random dither to the 16-bit CD: upsampling).
It seems the DAC handles the same parameters as these Foobar settings:
>Playback
- output data format (16/24/32 or even higher bit)
- dithering, noise shaping
>Resampler (SSRC)
(Currently set to 48KHz to bypass the hardware resampler in the onboard soundchip)
How do the Foobar settings and DAC interact?
Do these settings make sense at all when the upsampling DAC does same? Having more than one samplerate conversion in the chain is probably nuts.
Which Foobar settings would theoretically deliver best sound quality in this setup?
I just recently got a upsampling DAC and now I’m more than a bit confused on how player settings and DAC interact.
The dac upsamples 44.1khz - 96/192 khz and increases the word length to 24 bits (adding eight bits of random dither to the 16-bit CD: upsampling).
It seems the DAC handles the same parameters as these Foobar settings:
>Playback
- output data format (16/24/32 or even higher bit)
- dithering, noise shaping
>Resampler (SSRC)
(Currently set to 48KHz to bypass the hardware resampler in the onboard soundchip)
How do the Foobar settings and DAC interact?
Do these settings make sense at all when the upsampling DAC does same? Having more than one samplerate conversion in the chain is probably nuts.
Which Foobar settings would theoretically deliver best sound quality in this setup?
