Hd not recognized on dac...iTunes, pc, USB problem


Hi folks,

I'm at a loss and would live your help.

I just downloaded some hd sample tracks in flax format from
linn and am trying to play these on my system which includes a wyred4sound dac1 (handling upto 24/96 via USB).

I tried to play these files from foobar2000 (as well as iTunes) but the dac1 display stubbornly shows 44.1 encoding. irrespective whether I use a 16, 24 bit file, or even go up to 192khz files. What is even mire strange is that 192khz files still play.

What is going on? Downplaying on the PC? Do I need to change a setting? I have win 7.

What can I do to hear these hd files ideally from
iTunes? Do I need to convert to apple lossless ? Does iTunes support hd apple lossless?

What if i stick with foobar?
Thx!!!!
mizuno

Showing 2 responses by mizuno

Thankyou all for the help!

With it, i was able to make it all work!!

Still with foobar (even though i don't like the user experience). i changed the playback device settings, uploaded flac plug-in, wasapi and KS.with wasapi, i reduced the buffer to 500ms but I also changed the playback setting to play the songs from RAM. Ialso increased foobar's priority as a process to high.

working great. However no album art, no easy browsing,... which iis why i may try jriver. Is there anyway to import my itunes library in jriver? my itunes consists of Apple lossless formatted files.

By the way, itunes does play Apple lossless at 24/96 but it downsampkes it because my dac only recognizes a 44.1 stream.

SInce my current dac doesn't play 88.2, im using r8brain to convert 88.2 to 96, it does force me to go via an extra painful wav conversion.Are there better solutions out there? I may otherwise buy the MF v-link to same me from the hazzle.
When I thought everything was solved i was wrong. On longer tracks after a few minutes the jitter reemerges, and the musics skips so much that my DAC loses the connection.

Are there any benchmarks that evaluate PC/laptop quality for audio USB playback.