xnor
Headphoneus Supremus
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Originally Posted by Sherwood /img/forum/go_quote.gif The chief virtue of ASIO playback was to bypass Kmixer in Windows XP. Can I assume from the semi-transparent border of your RMAA test results window that you are using Vista? If so, that should account for your findings. ASIO is still very useful for I/O, owing to its low latency. For playback only in Vista, however, I don't believe it's a necessity. |
Originally Posted by MaZa /img/forum/go_quote.gif I guess its very soundcard dependant (some older ones did force resampling). With all DSP features off, if your soundcard passes the signal through to DAC without any forced things like resampling, using ASIO might indeed be pointless and bit perfect mode is there just for the sake of peace of mind? And apparently this was more of a problem with Windows XP because kernel mixer resampled all signals passing through it to 48khz and did crappy job at it. If I understood correctly, Vistas mixer does no resampling, only digital volume adjusting is done, so ASIO and WASAPI are almost unnecessary. *edit* Sherwood beated me. |
Originally Posted by xnor /img/forum/go_quote.gif Volume wasn't set to the max and it didn't resample anything. And I officially hate the stupid term 'bit-perfect' until I get a proper definition. |
Originally Posted by AtomikPi /img/forum/go_quote.gif I don't hear a difference between ds and asio. I'm in xp. RMAA for xp would be nice to see since everyone complains about xp ds. Note: I set volume to max and use foobar. |
Originally Posted by haloxt /img/forum/go_quote.gif If you want an answer from the pov of someone who thinks software can affect sound quality, read this website cMP² | Main / HomePage . |