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RE: Blind Test Results

OK, well I think it works a bit differently (due to the options you now have for interfacing with the hardware directly and giving an application the ability to lock out other applications from using the sound hardware in question).

Anyway, I know that when I play using DS in Vista, some CPU time is being spent in an Audio-related process, whereas when I use KS system CPU time goes to about the zero (the same as when no music is playing). I am trusting the KS option in Vista at this point. Also, I could never discern any difference between ASIO and KS (when using an E-Mu 1212M and M-Transit Audiophile USB) back when I was using XP...I think what it comes down to is either you are using an interface that passes the data straight through to the hardware layer without any processing (KS and ASIO) or you are not (DirectSound, although it seems to be OK in some cases, like when there is no other audio source playing that requires mixing two sources together).


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