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| How do I bypass KMixer in Windows XP Nnyc - no, you must select "no sounds" in the Windows preferences. Go to sounds and audio devices etc. in control panel.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| How do I bypass KMixer in Windows XP You dont need any other driver than what your sound device provides, if any.Just substitute your device for Empirical 1.1 above. I did this recently for a Lynx card. Worked perfectly.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| How do I bypass KMixer in Windows XP I have found the easiest and most effective is unmapping the device (example uses Empirical Audio device):Go to Control Panel - System Hardware - Device Manager - Sound Video and Game Controllers Empirical 1.1 - Right-Click and select Properties... | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio " if you use USB then it all comes down to the clock in the DAC."Some DAC's have upsampling clocks in them, but many have no clock at all. NOS DAC's have no clock. There are a handfull of very expensive DAC's that generate a local clock and allow ... | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio "ShadorneUSB has no clock - it is an asynchronous protocol."Actually, this depends on the USB protocol. All USB converters use Synchronous Adaptive mode, which uses the embedded clock in the data stream from the USB cable. It relies on the clock a... | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio "My Understanding is that in case of a HDD based transport, the File is converted into an Async format (Lossless) . This is then played via a PC/Mac and when given out as digital out, the clock that is synched to is the machines own clock (Am I ri... | |
| Best possible digital output from a computer? Detlof - have you tried rolling thos tubes yet?I have found that really new ones make a big difference in HF extension and clarity (Siemens CCA grey-plates). They need to measure about 18ma. I get them on ebay, usually from someone in Germany.Stev... | |
| Best possible digital output from a computer? Rives - I have yet to find a PCI soundcard that sounds good.Each of these devices has different drivers and different ways of avoiding kmixer, and PCI cards usually have poor clocks, so the result is a lot of jitter.It's hard to tell whether it ji... | |
| Problem with USB audio Horseface - makes me cringe to call you that - the Benchmark and Empirical Audio products use the native windows drivers. There is no driver to load. No ASIO to load.However, there are still some hurdles, namely kmixer on XP. To bypass this, eithe... | |
| Apple versus PC If you were running ASIO on the PC, that explains it. None of the ASIO's sound good IMO. You have to unmap or use kernel streaming.Mac is more trouble-free I admit, but I dont think the upsampler is as good as SRC and Foobar 0.8.3. I dont like the... | |
| Problem with USB audio Make sure that the USB port on your computer is a good one. Try them all.Also, give the player high priority - realtime or highest.If you are running any other USB devices, this will screw things up. Remove them and try again. You may have a confl... | |
| Newbe PC audio Cerrot - I have been wondering about the new Firewire DiceII chip and how good it is, as you tout this with almost every post you make. I read the AES paper on the JET jitter reduction and it was very interesting. Well a friend finally brought ove... | |
| MBA project - audiophile computer transport "The equipment is pretty good--I'm a vinyl person, so my DAC is not the best. It's a Levinson 360S. The transport that I compare to is the Levinson 37. Actually--it's quite good for redbook."I have to be skeptical here because I've modded a bit of... | |
| MBA project - audiophile computer transport Rives - you are comparing apples and oranges IMO. Now if you had a low jitter bit-perfect digital computer source and compared it to the same track playing on a Transport, not a CD player, then you would have a valid comparison. Digital Lens is ol... | |
| MBA project - audiophile computer transport Turn-key servers like this are really only for the computer illiterate IMO. For most of us that have WiFi networks and can find our way around a computer, the ticket is iTunes and AppleTV controlled by an iPhone or a Sonos system. You dont need a ... |