Well I just setup my fist PC for AUDIO, the system consists of Intel Board, Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz and EM-U 1212m soundcard, streaming music to the digital input of my Audio Aero Prestige.
The results have great;
1) The first piece of software that I tried was foobar with ASIO drives @ 44.1 in slave mode (The WORD clock used was of the Audio Aero) with this software I heard the imaging being slightly more stable and a fuller body, when comparing the sound to the transport of the player on the fly, we came to the conclusion the sound was slight more natural on the AA rather than the computer being used as a transport.
Next I tried this new player called XXHighend, installed it on my XP choose engine #1 and hit play......It bettered the AA transport!!! the sound has the ease the natural feel of the AA plus added more resolution, the image was far more stable, also the TONE was right not like in foobar where something felt a miss. From what I understand after reading about this player is that doesn't care about ASIO OR KS..... its proprietary to the way the playback takes place very similar to the Memory player.
First the WAV is read and send to the RAM and from the RAM the stream is sent out of the sound card!
Everyone must give this player a listen, I'm quite certain you will be pleased with what you hear.
Best Regards,
Satyam Bachani.
