mswlogo;359008 Wrote: > I'm always skeptical when I see this. The "Default Sound Card Drivers" > will butcher the sound because it will resample 44.1khz to 48khz and > run through the OS's mixer. > > ASIO or DirectSound (both of which would require drivers from the > vender) are the only way to get Native Bitrates out (Or use a > SqueezeBox :) )
If you read the Benchmark DAC instruction manual you will learn that in the case of Windows Vista the upsampling routines are excellent. Also Benchmark claims to have a "driverless" way to bypass the kmixer. I wonder what Cambridge has implemented. -- sxr71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sxr71's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18773 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53985 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
