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I'm Roberto.
That's why I have in order the musiland monitor 01; with this little box I can skip the caiman usb limit, and depart from usb jitter issues
Right now, while waiting for delivery, when I want to listen HD tracks, I just enable the resampler embedded in foobar to downsample from 96 to 48; you can find under Playback/DSP in foobar preference
Well, after properly set foobar on wasapi output, I can say I have no more complains about flac quality, and some flac actually sounds LOT BETTER than the corresponding burned CD
I'm very very happy
I have been playing even 192KHz files via the PC and the USB output to the Caiman. I use Media Monkey and never had to do any sort of adjustment to get them to play.
I am surprised you have to do that in Foobar.
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Hi Stan, I think what's happening with my Foobar on XP is that ASIO4ALL is detecting what the USB chip can do in the 7520 - it this likely?
I could down sample my 24/96 track but's it's just one track so I'm not really bothered.
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I'm Roberto.
Stan, reading at the specs for 2902, the maximum resolution accepted is 16/48
If you use foobar or any else player with no ASIO or WASAPI, windows automatically resample every data stream to the maximum allowed
Me too was able to play everything with no problem, but with ASIO or wasapi it's a different story
While they improve considerably the sound quality bypassing windows mixer and sending a bit perfect stream to the usb, they don't apply any automatic downsample if you try to play a track that exceed receiver capability, and simply give you a message error
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I'm Moe.
any updates on the USB port development?
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I'm Bob.
It's all contextual Nat....
Flac is decoded by the player on the fly, so it is not the format which is the issue but hardware or software. It is not a widespread problem, in fact very limited, as you will find in previous threads.
Storage space is NO LONGER the issue it once was. Given you have no issues with playback of FLAC, why change back to WAV?
Once prices drop again for big SATAs, I will be able to hot swap the 2Tb backup instead of using the usb 1.5Tb. The extra storage needed for WAV may not be massive, but it all takes time to back up, especially on a stack of RAIDed 320s.
I don't backup, I copy new rips to 3 drives. No backup required. WAVs somehow seem better nowadays unless you wirelessly stream; just the same as doublespace is unnecessary nowadays.
TT 1 Trans-Fi Salvation with magnetic bearing + Trans-Fi Terminator T3Pro + London Reference
TT 2 Garrard 301 with NWA main bearing + Audiomods Series Six 10.5" + Ortofon 2M Mono SE
Digital Lindemann Bridge + Gustard R26 with LB external clock
Pre and Power Amp EWA M40P + M40A
Bass Amp & DSP Behringer iNuke NU3000DSP x 2
Speakers 1 Bastanis Sagarmatha Duo with twin baffleless 15" bass drivers per side
Speakers 2 MarkaudioSota Viotti Tower