halcyon
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Wodgy, that may be true for chips (after c. mid 90s or so), but it surely is not true for software implementations
Originally Posted by halcyon Wodgy, that may be true for chips (after c. mid 90s or so), but it surely is not true for software implementations |
Originally Posted by Wodgy Don't get me wrong, you definitely want slow mode. All I was saying was that even slow mode involves tradeoffs. |
Originally Posted by Permonic Ok, thanks guys for the advice. I can tell you that with ASIO and upsampling to 24/88.1 or 96 kHz I hear distortion. With 48 kHz it's Ok. With Directsound there's no distortion in the test sound. Is it due to the fact that ASIO bypasses the Kmixer (I have Win XP) and Directsound not? |
Originally Posted by Wodgy You're making life harder for yourself than you need it to be. Start out with no upsampling and WaveOut. If you don't get distortion, you should stick with this. Believe it or not, the Sonica is bit-perfect with just basic waveout (I've verified this personally using a DTS decoder and PCM encoded 44.1kHz DTS files), and the Transit is mostly similar hardware to the Sonica but with different drivers. If that didn't work, try no upsampling and DirectSound. If you don't get distortion, then stick with this. Only if those two don't work, start fiddling with ASIO or Kernel Streaming and upsampling. |
Originally Posted by CingKrab With the newest VIA drivers on the AV-710 and 2 channel hi-rez mode turned on, foobar (on kernel streaming) wouldn't play any files unless I resampled to 96000 specifically. Maybe it's 96k internally? |
Originally Posted by Wodgy My personal recommendation for people with good, non-resampling hardware like the M-Audio cards is simply not to use upsampling. |
Originally Posted by Stephonovich So take off Slow Mode. It does diddly crap anyway. Even the author says it's not noticeable unless you're doing 8000-48000 or something similar. (-:Stephonovich |