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I got the USB DAC per everyone's sugguestion BUT..

Oh well, I got the V-Dac..., but am returning it. There's a limitation on most of these DACs out there that they will only take a max of 16bit 48khz sample rate through USB. It is definitely the case for this V-DAC. I also called Emotiva and they said the USB will limit the bit depth no matter what brand I use because most high-end DACs don't have a 3rd party driver. I tried to stream a Vinyl rip at 24bit 192hkz with the V-DAC and it wouldn't play no matter what. I also tried without the USB Cable, using "pass through" from on board sound to the DAC through a coaxial cable. but was unable to get any sound. Any of you ever gotten a DAC to operate at 24/192 under Windows 7?

Thanks.
angelgz2
gundam91
506 posts
 
Hi all, spent all night last night trying to find a specific discussion on this exact topic without any success. I have a Benchmark DAC-1 USB and it will take 24/192 signal. So I have downloaded some 24/192, 24/176 files from 2L and dCS. The computer will be either a laptop running Win 7 / Foobar 2000 (or JRiver) or a desktop running Vista and Foobar (or JRiver). Both of these software will decode 24/192. I intend to connect the Benchmark to either computer via an USB cable. So the question is whether the USB cable will transmit the 24/192 signal to the DAC?

My house remodel is wrapping up in about 2 months, and all my equipment are in storage, so I am not able to "plug it in and give it a try" at the moment. So posting here to try to get a definite answer. Thanks in advance.

FrankC
timlub
2,042 posts
 
Gundam91,
Yes, at least my laptop with win7-64 with foobar, outputting wasapi to mg Musiland DAC does
gundam91
506 posts
 
Thanks for confirming, Timlub! I can't wait to get my system up and running.

FrankC
audioengr
3,282 posts
 
"So the question is whether the USB cable will transmit the 24/192 signal to the DAC?"

Yes it will, however it will be resampled by your DAC.

I highly recommend using JRiver Media Center and Kernel Streaming or WASAPI. Otherwise, you are hearing Core Audio nasties. Rip with dbpoweramp with Accurate-Rip enabled. foobar is pretty good with KS, but not as good as JMC.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
gundam91
506 posts
 
Thanks Audioengr, for the confirmation and recommendation. I had started out using EAC to rip .WAV files into my network server. Later on, I used MS Media Player w/ error correction option turned on. I had a Cowon i5 portable player, and I could tell the difference between .WAV and FLAC files. I may try the comparison again with the new DACs.

FrankC
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