[zantif]

Sound is distorted very badly with crackles and pops in the background if I try to set the Advanced Sound Properties in Control Panel to 16bit/44100Hz, or anything higher. I tried reinstalling my drivers, but that didn't help either. The only setting that seems to work is 16bit/32000Hz. Does anyone know why this might be? I'm running out of an E7. The E7 works on other machines, this seems to only be an issue on my laptop.

 

[ROBSCIX]

..on what card, onboard...or?

 

[zantif]

Sorry, I was referring to the E7 dac

 

[Roseval]

Sounds like a USB problem to me.
If possible try another USB port on the laptop.
Dirty PSU, try playing with battery power
High latency of the system: try http://www.thesycon.com/deu/latency_check.shtml
 

 

[zantif]

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Sounds like a USB problem to me.
If possible try another USB port on the laptop.
Dirty PSU, try playing with battery power
High latency of the system: try http://www.thesycon.com/deu/latency_check.shtml
 

Thanks for the tip!
 
As I was testing the latency of my machine the E7 or something apparently fixed itself. I don't know what changed. So now I've got 16b/44100Hz playback through my E7.
 
But now I have a new issue: when I try to use WASAPI in foobar2k with the E7, I get crackles and pops. I tried switching USB ports, but there was no change. Battery power is on full too. I don't know what could be wrong since normal playback without WASAPI works fine. Also WASAPI works when I don't have the E7 plugged in.

 

[Bloodoath]

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Thanks for the tip!
 
As I was testing the latency of my machine the E7 or something apparently fixed itself. I don't know what changed. So now I've got 16b/44100Hz playback through my E7.
 
But now I have a new issue: when I try to use WASAPI in foobar2k with the E7, I get crackles and pops. I tried switching USB ports, but there was no change. Battery power is on full too. I don't know what could be wrong since normal playback without WASAPI works fine. Also WASAPI works when I don't have the E7 plugged in.

Try lowering the buffer in foobar.