I have a question for you people...
I have the latest version of foobar and made all the upgrades in the drivers of nano dsd (firmware 4.02-windrivers 2.20)
I run a win7 64bit pc with 8gb ram...
now, I choose from the fbar> preferences > output devices > "foo_dsd_asio"...
then Asio > asio drivers >and double click on "foo_dsd_asio", to open a new window with properties...then I make the choises you see at the 2nd photo...then, at tools > sacd and make the choises you see at the 3rd photo
everything ok then...
the first question is why if I choose in the outpout devices the "asio: iFi (by AMR) hd usb audio", instead of the "foo_dsd_asio", foobar starts palying dsd files (I see the bar moving as it plays), but there is no sound at my speakers...I can hear nothing when trying to play dsd files with the "asio:iFi hd usb audio", but it can play all kind of pcm formats I "throw" at it...again, when I choose the "asio:iFI"...is this ok?
now the second question...
when I choose "foo_dsd_asio" and all my choises in "small boxes" when double click on it, are correct (asio drivers - dsd playback method - dsd to dsd method etc), a wierd thing happens, again, when I try to play ONLY dsd files...
I hit the play button in foobar to begin play dsd, and then I see at the bottom right corner of my pc (small speaker icon) that my sound is disabled...
weird I say, and during playback of the dsd file in foobar, I open "sound devices" of my pc, searching for my primary sound device I have chosen (that is of course "iFi hd usb audio"), and I can find nothing...it is as if I have uninstall the ifi nano, as my primary sound card...that is the reason why I see the red little icon at the right bottom of my screen....there is no sound card...nothing...but still, I can hear the dsd file playing in the foobar...see pic
is this ok?...thats the way nano should operate?
now, when I hit the "stop" button in foobar, everything gets back to normal...the red icon dissapears at the "speaker icon", then at pc and "sound properties" my primary device (iFi) comes back and is "ticked", and everything is ok....I hit again the play button in foobar to star palying dsd, and guess what happens...everything is gone (dissabled sound card etc), but my file is playing just fine and I can hear everything at my active speakers...I hit stop and everything ok....I hit play and....I hit stop and.....
the above situation happens ONLY, if I choose to play dsd files under "foo_dsd_asio"...when I choose to play pcm files, flacs etc, everything is normal under the same conditions...
to sum up, I choose a dsd file to play and my sound card is dissabled as I mentioned above...still I can hear sound...then I hit stop at foobar, and without change anything, I choose to play a pcm file, flac etc...again, I can hear just fine the pcm file playing and nothing at the above happens...my sound card isnt;t dissabled, when I search in "sound devices" of my pc, I can find my "primary audio device" (iFi), etc etc...
why is this happening?...its normal nano to operate like that?...or my pc to operate like that, again, only when playing dsd files and eveything to stay unchanged, when playing every other audio file?..is it something in the foobar setup?
sorry for the long post