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| How do I optimize J.River with quality sound card Yikes! If I was wrong about the ASIO driver being built in, then I apologize. It's been over a year since I used an ASIO driver. I'm becoming and "old listener" too.In any event, I still recommend using direct sound output if it works with your de... | |
| Blue Note 45rpm reissue Just a piece of trivia that may not be news to any of you: There's a big to do on the Acoustic Sounds web site about the AP Blue Note 45s being stereo instead of mono. It turns out that a few of the reissues will be mono, according to their salesp... | |
| How do I optimize J.River with quality sound card How to unmap your device in Windows XP to bypass the kmixer (and so you don't need an ASIO driver):Control Panel - Sounds and Audio Devices - Hardware tab - Double click on your adio device - Properties tab - Double click on "Audio Devices" - Doub... | |
| How do I optimize J.River with quality sound card If you're not using an ASIO device, which you're not, you shouldn't need an ASIO driver. ASIO drivers are used when you have an ASIO device. A lot of people use them because they have the added side benefit of bypassing kmixer. But you can bypass ... | |
| File format compatible with iTunes and J.River No need to use Exact Audio Copy. Jriver Media Center does bit-perfect ripping. Just select secure mode in the rip options. This will read and reread until every bit is captured. Hard drive copy is exactly the same as CD original. Can rip to severa... | |
| How do I optimize J.River with quality sound card I was describing jriver media center (the one you have to buy), not jukebox. Sorry, I've only used media center, so I don't know the differences. | |
| How do I optimize J.River with quality sound card BTW - if you bypass kmixer through the windows control panel, you don't need an ASIO driver. In this case, in jriver - options - output mode: select Direct Sound instead of ASIO. Direct Sound does not change the bits during playback, giving you an... | |
| How do I optimize J.River with quality sound card JRiver has a built in ASIO driver. I recommend using that one. JRiver has said that it does not modify the bits during playback - other ASIO drivers do. I've never used the ASIO4all driver, but I seem to recall reading in this forum that ASIO4all ... | |
| SACD & DVDA done? Last I heard, the blu-ray spec did not include a provision for the SACD format. But manufacturers may still make blu-ray players that play SACDs. The spec also doesn't require blu-ray players to play DVDs, but current models do because it's still ... | |
| Denon DVD-3910 digi out? Not sure about the 3910. Denon 5910ci lets you pass multichannel DSD (SACD) and DVD-Audio using 1394 connection, as long as the receiving device supports DTCP copyright protection -- can't plug into a PC. | |
| What does Jitter sound like? A lot of people still seem to not buy-in to jitter effecting sound. I get the impression people think that since their PC software loads fine from a CD without error, then their audio CDs should too. But it's different. Perhaps someone can explain... | |
| Reference Recordings "WAV" files.... Clarification-I haven't seen any dacs with a 384 input sample rate, only 384kHz dacs. But it appears the I2S interface handles 384... | |
| Reference Recordings "WAV" files.... Psacanli: At the moment, I won't. I wasn't kidding -- my DAC doesn't accept a 176.4 signal, and my Empirical Audio USB interface doesn't either. If your dac takes a 176.4 sigal (many take anything up to 192), then you're OK. Or like Alex said, you... | |
| Reference Recordings "WAV" files.... That is interesting. Only a matter of time before more producers offer higher and higher rez recordings for download. Equipment makers should embrace PC-based audio, because as bit depths and sample rates increase, we'll need to keep upgrading our... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? I agree with (1) from rbstehno. Get a DAC that sounds good to you and make the PC interface work from there. I've tried DACs with built-in USB interfaces (Benchmark and Cosecant) and haven't been impressed. But everyone has different tastes. If yo... |