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RE: My USB DAC research and some questions...

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vista and wasapi output sounds better than anything i've tried on xp. 'Andy' has posted a really excellent minimal waspi player. I get the best playback quality by dragging wav files from my hard drive to a ram disk and then also defragging the ram (lots of useful defrag tools for this, some allow you to right click and defrag files). Once you get to this level running the laptop just off battery gives a noticeable improvement too.
I've tested wasapi and ks to be bit perfect with loop back recordings. Has to be that rather broadly defined and all-encompassing 'jitter' thing that gives these differences in real-time playback quality. But certainly with the same playback software and hardware there are clear differences between different sample rate converters.


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