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Oversampling rate in J River

I have a W4S Dac 2 that I am using with my laptop. I am having a ball downloading hi res music and ripping CDs. Sounds great, lots of fun and boy do I love the convenience. Also have solid state Mac and a pair of B&W 803Ss.

I have been fooling around with different DSP settings and have found virtually very little change or change that I care for...Until this weekend when I changed the oversampling from none to 192,000. Wow. Quantum leap. More presence, detail and what many in these forums would call involvement.

What happened? is this normal? PC audio is fairly new to me. Looking for advice/input from those who know.
dmm53

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dmm53 OP
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Ekwisnek:

I used the settings published by W4S for the DAC for J River. I am using Media center 16 and had it set on no oversampling. I am using Kernel Streaming, as recommended by W4S. I had no other DSP settings in use.

of course, I have the W4S driver selected in the setup which I thought bypassed all the sound drivers in Windows Vista. Have I missed something?

Audioengr:

If there are ways with my current setup to improve the sound, I am all ears and would be very appreciative. If it requires me buying an Off Ramp,then not so much.
dmm53 OP
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Thanks. No knock on Steve's product. I'm sure it has added value.

Thanks to everyone. Will continue the journey.
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