[Earwax]

There's a new driver available from ViaArena for the Chaintech AV-710, new as of April 7th. http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=327

The Via AudioDeck Control Panel seems to have been cleaned up a little, I haven't found any other changes yet.

There's also a Via Envy driver that the Windows update process wants to install, but when I tried that one I had problems with the volume control slider.

Has anyone else tried the newer drivers and have any comments about them?

 

[beats unbeaten]

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Originally Posted by Earwax Has anyone else tried the newer drivers and have any comments about them?

never had the older ones installed, but with 302d, the master volume slider affects the balance when in hi-res mode (only right channel seems to change volume). works normally when not in hi-res mode. do you notice a similar behavior?

also, you need to modify permissions on the registry if you want to run the Vinyl control panel from a non-administrative account.

 

[Earwax]

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Originally Posted by beats unbeaten never had the older ones installed, but with 302d, the master volume slider affects the balance when in hi-res mode (only right channel seems to change volume). works normally when not in hi-res mode. do you notice a similar behavior?

Yes, now that I check again, there is still something off kilter with this. The balance does change as the volume slider is moved. Or maybe the way to describe it is that the right and left volume sliders aren't acting as if they are on the same scale. And just now I lost the left side altogether for a moment.

Looks like I need to go back to the older driver after all.

 

[sir poulet]

The more I increase the volume using the computer while in Hi - res mode, the more I lose volume in the left channel, and vice versa when I decrease the volume. There's a point where the channels are balanced though, so I use my amp from there to adjust. Do you happen to have a link to the earlier driver in case I get tired of this? =)

 

[Earwax]

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Originally Posted by sir poulet Do you happen to have a link to the earlier driver in case I get tired of this? =)

http://www.techspot.com/drivers/inde...formation/2474 still seems to have the 143d package.

 

[beats unbeaten]

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Originally Posted by sir poulet There's a point where the channels are balanced though, so I use my amp from there to adjust. Do you happen to have a link to the earlier driver in case I get tired of this? =)

seems exactly half way is properly balanced... agree?
use the rear channel volume slider instead or foobar's volume conrol for all adjustments and you won't have to mess with the master volume

 

[sir poulet]

Yeah, I realized halfway on master control would do it. I didn't know you could control the rear channel volume though!