[EBisky]

So what's the deal with this prog?

I read some back-topics on it.

I installed it for winamp, using the .dll as my output in winamp and that ASIO4ALL prog as the "control"..I hear no difference AT ALL..so what's up??

Audigy soundcard w/Sony street style headphones(I know..got A500's on the way ;/ soundcard soon in the future)

am i doing something wrong?? is there an ASIO guide?? What does ASIO4ALL have to do with the .dll for winamp?! what do the controls in ASIO4ALL do?? I hear no difference when choosing "disable" over "enable" in ASIO4ALL..

confused,

-EB

 

[DevilDog]

It's probably the headphones you're using. Using better headphones you should hear a difference. A better soundcard will reveal more as well as an amp, of course.
Part of the fun is listening to your setup as it improves.

 

[kalzone]

asio provides direct access to the soundcard and thereby bypassing windows' kmixer which can *potentionally* affect the sound negatively.
asio also provides low latency but that is something that's usually only important to people recording music.
by using asio you might or might not hear a difference.

as for the asio4all application, it was written to provide asio-like support for soundcards that don't support it natively.
i don't use asio4all so i cannot answer the other questions.

 

[Fidelity]

For Winamp try using out_asio.exe (there is also a .dll version), each version is zipped with several different binaries (you only need one set), each that provides support for either SSE, SSE2, or SSE3, use whatever your CPU supports.

 

[EBisky]

so if I am using the .dll as my output in winamp or running the .exe of ASIO, that should verify that ASIO is active??

I also can't wait for my A500's. I actually was on this site looking up info for a friend and the boards convinced me to get a pair for myself, while my friend is still undecided!

-EB

 

[maarek99]

I don't hear any noticeable difference either. I think it's just for peace of mind for hifi ears.

 

[philly4]

Quote:

Originally Posted by maarek99 I don't hear any noticeable difference either. I think it's just for peace of mind for hifi ears.

I would agree, in most normal listening situations, I doubt that most people can actually ABX the difference between ASIO and a normal output like DS. The windows mixer just doesn't mess up sound quality that much. That's not to say it can never happen. ASIO does however make a big difference if you want to play a DTS or Dolby Digital encoded wav through digital output.

 

[cgdef]

There is very slight difference in winamp provided that you already have setup winamp to give you the best it can. There is a difference though. As far as the asio plugin for winamp goes it does more bad than good on my machine with Echo Indigo + MAD - directsound + winamp5. The asio plugin seems to not play very nicelly with winamp5 and that is too bad. Oh well my sound is great even without it

Oh yeah I also use Alessandro M1 which is a good enough set of can's to be able to tell the difference.