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The Creative X-Fi

> I am not sure about the new Creative X-Fi line. . .

It does bit-perfect just fine (checked with an HDCD DAC using
Foobar 0.8.3 with Kernel Streaming).

In a sense the X-Fi is three cards in one. There's a control
app with a mode-switcher function that puts the card into
either: 1) Entertainment Mode 2) Audio Creation Mode or
3) Game Mode. There are control consoles for each of these
modes.

For bit-perfect, you want to be in Audio Creation Mode.
In the Audio Creation Mode screen, click the Settings pushbutton
in the lower left corner of the screen, and on the Settings
screen, in the "Clock" section, set the Master Sampling Rate
to 44.1 kHz (the choices are 44.1, 48, 88.2, and 96).
then in the Playback section check the box labelled
"Enable Bit-Matched Playback" (with the on-screen comment
"(Note: This disables EQ, 24-bit Crystalizer and SVM)"

Then you're bit-perfect with the X-Fi.

X-Fi, BTW, has native ASIO drivers too. So you can
use that, or use Kernel Streaming, with Foobar.

I'm using Foobar with the X-Fi's native ASIO out
("Device: SB X-Fi [9880]"), and it's certainly doing
S/PDIF output, as well.




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