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RE: Korg DS-DAC-10R

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LtMandella

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In Reply to: RE: DSD vs. 24x192 pcm posted by flood2 on March 09, 2022 at 12:34:41

I liked the sound of the Korg dac I had, but I coould not put up with the fact it required windoze drivers. I had blue screens until I gave up on the Korg and it's drivers (admittedly I run an overclocked liquid-cooled machine). I sent that Dac to the landfill...

That experience convinced me I did not want to do the digitizing using anything that required windoze and drivers.

Especially since Win-11 is around the corner and many (all?) Win-10 drivers will likely be DOA in Win-11

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RE: Korg DS-DAC-10R - flood2 14:30:32 03/16/22 (2)
One possible reason might be due to the USB controller - Korg is using USB2 and they didn't guarantee that the device would work on USB3. Going back about 10 years ago, there was certainly backwards compatibility issues with USB2 devices in early USB3 controllers when USB3 was "new" despite the requirement to be fully backwards compatible. That seems to have been ironed out in recent years. The Korg works fine on all my new laptop devices with USB 3 type A ports and OTG ports, but I did have problems with some USB3 hubs and early USB3 PCI cards and some early USB3 portable HDDs also not being recognised in those same cards.

As I said last time, I've had ZERO problems with the DS-DAC-10R/Audiogate on multiple generic Chinese 2 in1 Win10 machines and it is running fine on a Teclast 2in1 device (via Type A USB3 connection) I bought off Aliexpress which is now running Win11 and your experience should not frighten off others; as long they are using a typical OTS laptop or standard desktop without unusual legacy expansion cards, then everything runs fine on USB3. Any legacy device with USB 2 ports should be fine.

From what I have read, MS no longer test the new builds on real hardware - they use virtual machines with "standard" hardware configurations before releasing builds to the Insider Program. They rely on those on the Windows Insider Program to inform them of specific bugs - like the file corruption issues in storage spaces reported in early distributions of new releases like version 2004 (May 2020).
Regards Anthony

"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
- RE: Korg DS-DAC-10R - LtMandella 16:48:27 03/16/22 (1)
  One thing it is safe to say:
  
  If your ADC device and processing does not require use of Windoze OS , a USB port, a Windoze driver, and a Windoze application, in order to perform your analogue to digital rips, there can be no USB, Windoze Driver, or Windoze App incompatibilities.
  
  Because you ain't using any of them...
  
  Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
  Mark Twain
  - RE: Korg DS-DAC-10R - flood2 18:56:14 03/16/22 (0)
    You don't need a special USB Audio 2.0 driver unless you are wanting to record above 24/96 or insist on recording direct in DSD. You could have just stuck to 24/88.2 and used Audiogate to convert to DSD later which would obviate the need for a dedicated driver.
    All devices should work under the standard OS drivers without needing anything additional. You might consider Asio4ALL if you wanted to ensure bit-perfect transfer.
    
    Your machine is obviously non-standard or some of your software is non-compliant or causing memory leaks so your user-experience is not likely to be experienced by others using a standard configuration which I daresay most probably are so it isn't really sensible to be complaining about Windows like we are talking about Windows 98 - back then, anything and everything would cause BSOD! I've used every version of Windows since 3.11 and know just how flaky things used to be. Windows 10 is easily the most stable version since then. Win 11 is still too new for me to comment on but the Korg software works fine.
    Regards Anthony
    
    "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats

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