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In Reply to: RE: Thanks, I'll try it, DR ~nt posted by Tony Lauck on October 20, 2008 at 06:46:57:
I have kept my dedicated music PC pretty lean. I like to stream internet radio hence I'm a bit reluctant to disable the anti-virus, albeit the risk is probably small if I restrict Internet use in general.In Task Manager I set Foobar to 'Above Normal' priority. This made no difference in sound quality I could detect though it might have reduced dropouts ("glitches") a bit. What really got ride of the dropouts, as I mentioned, was specifying as generous input buffer in Foobar, on the other hand I keep the output buffer small when using ASIO.
I can't really judge the jitter tolerance of my DAC. My older Assemblage DAC has no special jitter provisions that I'm aware of. The only comparison I've had is to my CD player which is entry-level Sony; the Assembage is slightly better, being a tad airier and perhaps very slightly better resolved.
As I mentioned also, using ASIO apparently sends the DAC a better bit stream than does Direct Sound since with the former the DAC recognizes an HDCD signal. However I guess this doesn't say anything about jitter.
Fortunately I'm not obsessive about tiny differences. If differences such as there might be aren't pretty apparent to me, I don't go looking for them.
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Follow Ups
- Thanks, Tom, good advice - Feanor 09:28:30 10/21/08 (2)
- Enjoy the music! nt - Tony Lauck 09:40:39 10/21/08 (1)
- Thanks again, TONY!! ~nt - Feanor 13:10:22 10/21/08 (0)
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