Johncan
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I just purchased a new Musical Fidelity X-DAC V3 and I was planning on using it with my PC. The X-DAC V3 replaces a Musical Fidelity X-24K DAC.
When I use the X-DAC V3 with my CD player, both the optical and toslink interconnects work perfectly. However, when I switch to toslink out from my PC, the X-DAC V3 stutters for the first 25 seconds of the song and then plays fine. All the subsequent songs plays fine. However, if I manually skip a track or stop and start again, the song will stuttter for the first 25 seconds and then all is fine. This did not happen with my X-24K DAC. Everything worked perfectly with the X-24K DAC.
My PC is PIII 500 MHz CPU with 384 MB SDRAM. The hardrive is 7,200 RPM about half-full and was recently defragged. The OS is Win XP Pro with SP2. I use Foobar 8.3 with no other programs running. I have no active DSP in the chain (no volume or upsampling). My soundcard is a USB Sonica. My ouput is kernel streaming with output at 24 bits.
I have swapped toslink cables, tweaked Foobar settings (such as other output settings, bit-level depths, tried the ASIO plug-in), tried Winamp, and another generic USB sound card. I even added a Monarchy DIP to the chain and nothing improved.
Any ideas? Any good PCI soundcards with coaxial out (not toslink)?
When I use the X-DAC V3 with my CD player, both the optical and toslink interconnects work perfectly. However, when I switch to toslink out from my PC, the X-DAC V3 stutters for the first 25 seconds of the song and then plays fine. All the subsequent songs plays fine. However, if I manually skip a track or stop and start again, the song will stuttter for the first 25 seconds and then all is fine. This did not happen with my X-24K DAC. Everything worked perfectly with the X-24K DAC.
My PC is PIII 500 MHz CPU with 384 MB SDRAM. The hardrive is 7,200 RPM about half-full and was recently defragged. The OS is Win XP Pro with SP2. I use Foobar 8.3 with no other programs running. I have no active DSP in the chain (no volume or upsampling). My soundcard is a USB Sonica. My ouput is kernel streaming with output at 24 bits.
I have swapped toslink cables, tweaked Foobar settings (such as other output settings, bit-level depths, tried the ASIO plug-in), tried Winamp, and another generic USB sound card. I even added a Monarchy DIP to the chain and nothing improved.
Any ideas? Any good PCI soundcards with coaxial out (not toslink)?