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In Reply to: Usb-audio driver for usb spdif posted by Navyseal on February 22, 2007 at 15:11:57:
The control panel is only accessible through professional editing programs such as Steinberg Cubase or Ableton Live, etc.My M-Audio USB Audiophile comes with Live Lite and I was able to access it through there. You can open Live, access the usb-audio control panel and make changes, and then go back to foobar and the changes will be recognized.
Incidently, it's difficult to do A/B comparisons with this driver and others (since you have to uninstall and reinstall and reboot, etc.) And also, the demo version beeps every 30 seconds. So with all that in mind, I did not notice an improvement over using the M-Audio supplied driver (version 5.10.00.5077).
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I liked the sound so much I bought the thing. Not cheap, though. I too am using foobar and could not find a way to access the control panel.
Hi Jim,I'm very impressed with the HagUSB, and new to using the computer with the stereo. Any configuration help?
I bought the driver - sounds great, but it locks out my HagUSB from non-asio operation.
Really? You can't select another output driver? I haven't tried to undo this yet. So far, It's my best sound yet from Windows. This driver plus foobar2000. They play together nicely. I am unable, however, to pull up the driver's control panel. I guess you need something like Cubase to do that. Ok for me, as it configured itself just right.I'm not too excited about turning it off. I like it just the way it is.
Unfortunately I se the same analogue stage for listening to digital radio and watching video on my pc. I have a Terratec card in the pc and use a DAC1, so I can switch the DAC1 between tos and spdif inputs, but it's not an ideal situation.Try selecting the non-asio DS-USB output in Foobar and you'll see what I mean.
Winamp's ASIO plug-in will allow you to pull up the USB-Audio window. You can also control it through the ASIO4all windows in real time. I would rather use its own window. So I can see exactly what's going on.
What settings have you changed in the control panel? Do any of them have any effect on sound quality?
I've tried both 16 bit and 24 bit output from the control panel. I decided to leave it at 16 bit and use the SRC in foobar to upsample the signal to 24bit/48khz.
I also set the unit to normal speed most of the time. The highspeed setting lowers the latency even more.There's also a dither feature in the control panel. I didn't notice much of a difference using this feature.
This thing sounds good with any of the settings in my system. The differences were small in comparison to changing the driver from ASIO4all to the USB-Audio ASIO.
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