jriver settings

[colinB]

Im a bit frustrated with WMP these days and thought id give jriver a whirl and love the formating. Very pleased to find gapless playback and its very easy to use. At the moment im listening to headphones a lot due to moving into a house share so im using the crap headphone out on the notebook but will hopefuly have in my possession a HRT headstreamer next week and use the usb out.
Anything i need to know about audio settings? I did read somewhere using W7 i should whack the computer volume up to max and use jriver as the master volume which made no sense to me.

[bobbasrah]

Im a bit frustrated with WMP these days and thought id give jriver a whirl and love the formating. Very pleased to find gapless playback and its very easy to use. At the moment im listening to headphones a lot due to moving into a house share so im using the crap headphone out on the notebook but will hopefuly have in my possession a HRT headstreamer next week and use the usb out.
Anything i need to know about audio settings? I did read somewhere using W7 i should whack the computer volume up to max and use jriver as the master volume which made no sense to me.

Not used Jriver, or the HRT but both have a lot of users amd fans here, so specific info will be along shortly, or for when you get the HRT.
Digital playback from the computer should always be at max volume to keep the digital stream unaltered (digital volume control is not like analoguel). The HRT I think has analogue output control, and that is where volume should be modified.
Win7 has been designed to offer big advantages for audio over previous OS. The problem has always been the audio mixer to which windows reverts as a catch-all for system sounds. media, etc.. Win7 allows this to be customised more easily.
I would suggest a look at Vincent Kars excellent http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/ site for a good and well presented read on what you need to do. :D

[Welder]

It's all here somewhere Colin.

http://www.ayre.com/usb-vista_setup.htm

[bobbasrah]

Sorry John, I thought Colin was using Win7.
Don't know the HRT. Does it use Asio/WASAPI ? Does it self sense bit rate etc?

[colinB]

Had plans for today but im hunched over the lap top trying to take in all this new info:stalks:
Spent a few hours on those sites mentioned and changed lots of settings on the computer. Lots of questions going around the grey matter.
hanged usb management and power settings. Not even got round to understanding volume settings yet.
Looked into BIOS to disable speedstep but could only find disable cpu power save, dont know if thats the same thing. The batterys long gone and so i want to make the best of the power supply effiiciency if that makes any sense.
Feel like ive entered a black hole i had no idea about.

[Vincent Kars]

Anything i need to know about audio settings

As the HRT is USB audio class 1 (24/96) you don’t need any proprietary drivers.
Set JRiver to use WASAPI and you bypasses the entire Win mixer.
By doing so you get rid of the dither and have automatic sample rate switching.
http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/Players/MC14/MC_Wasapi.htm

Disabling power saving in the BIOS is a good idea.
http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/Windows/Win7/TweaksPower.htm

You might try a couple of other tweaks but I’m not really impressed by the results.
A good asynchronous USB implementation simply shields the DAC against a lot of what is going on inside the PC

[colinB]

Thanks Vincent. The unit has an inbuilt attenuater , something im not familiar with and there is no mention of galvenic isolation. Hopefuly it comes with a good manual that explains all.

[colinB]

If the HRT is asyncronous should i set jriver to exclusive WASAPI ?

[Vincent Kars]

Async = isochronous USB with asynchronous synchronization
The HRT is and will be async regardless of the audio driver you choose.
This is simply the transport protocol used on the USB.
Not to be mistaken for the audio driver (DS or WASAPI)