Archimago wrote: > Thanks for the note flimflam. > > I can't speak for XP since I don't have a machine with it installed any > more. True, these days with Win8, DirectSound will always dither as far > as I can tell, so will never be exactly bit perfect. I would not use > DirectSound in the 16-bit setting since lack of bit perfection is easily > demonstrated, but based on what I see, 24-bit setting seems OK. The > dithering in the lowest bit usually is below the noise floor of DACs > (since there's no DAC that actually can demonstrate 24-bit resolution - > the best is around 21/22 bits). > > Not sure what else you feel gets mixed in there if we're only playing a > single audio stream... Of course, one must also make sure the music is > the same sample rate as the DirectSound setting otherwise it gets > resampled.
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