In Reply to: RE: Is There Any Hope for Linux Audio? posted by Bob_C on May 9, 2015 at 11:15:04:
until you hear music played without a driver you won't know how much it affects the sound.
I've tried the windows native driver for 16/44.1, didn't sound that good.
I've read numerous reports where people say this or that driver sounds better or worse.
My problem with drivers is that for usb attached devices the driver has to interface with the client for every buffer loaded meaning multiple user to kernel mode switches. If people were serious about sound quality the driver would just get passed the pointers to preloaded ram and just render the music in kernel mode. MS does this with waveRT, but that's just for PCIE cards.
http://mqnplayer.blogspot.co.uk/
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