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In Reply to: RE: Do not upgrade to Windows 10 Anniversary Edition posted by Mercman on August 04, 2016 at 12:11:50
" I suspect that many of us that use the drivers provided by manufacturers of DACs should have no issues. I hope :-)"
Maybe you could help me here. When I use my music file replay software (JRiver MC as it happens) I am using DAC mfgs kernel streaming and I am using my DAC manufacturer's USB driver for USB 2. However when I listen to streamed radio I am using the station's on line player in my browser and that routes to the Windows sound engine. Would I then be using the Windows USB driver or the DAC manufacturer's bearing in mind that the computer/DAC physical interface is the same in both cases?
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Who knows what these guys are talking about with USB driver "sounding bad". (Just bad sound? Does this mess up other forms of data transfers!? With what DAC?)Kernel Streaming, WASAPI, ASIO are typically all bit-perfect when configured properly. Your DAC's manufacturer driver should maintain that "bit-perfectness" whether it's Windows 8/10/10AR as you suggest.
When playing off Windows as you're doing with the streaming radio, you'll then be playing off the Windows audio stack with the typical mixer, resampling and dithering processing as applied with whatever settings you have.
Both will utilize the USB drivers.
Just have a listen and let us know if you think anything changed...
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Edits: 08/05/16 08/05/16
Many thanks for your answer. Just for clarification , should the sentence " Both will utilize the USB drivers." read " Both will utilize the same USB drivers."?
Hi PAR. Both will utilize the same low level USB drivers to hit the interface hardware ultimately.
Looking around, I think the issue is that the Windows' update may have messed with the "USB Audio" 1.0 driver such that "driverless" USB DACs like the Dragonfly that top out at 24/96 might have playback issues.
If this is the issue, then this subject should have been more specific rather than a general suggestion that there's something wrong with the USB drivers. Those of us using custom USB audio device drivers should not be affected.
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There is no such thing as a Windows upgrade. You're just going from a pile of crap to an even bigger pile of crap.
Hi Bill:
Yeah, I should have said "update" rather than "upgrade". I agree, no guarantee that it makes it actually any better...
However, as a user who has gone through the evolution of various GUI-based OS'es from the old days of Commodore 64 GEOS, AmigaOS, Windows iterations, Sun Solaris, BeOS, the promise and stagnation of Linux on the desktop, and 5 years using Mac OS X for my work machine, I gotta say Windows 10 isn't bad at all.
Stability is decent. It's open (eg. how's FLAC support on the Mac?). And has all the mature software I need (unlike Linux).
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