Is that so? btw if my sound card not support 192Khz playback, the song will stutter just like when i using SRC with 192Khz sample rate..but with SSRC the song play just
fine on 192Khz but less clarity than the original 44.1Khz and 48Khz..I think oversampling does not produce any good. What do u think?

FYI i only use onboard cheap AL888...sound card is very expensive you know

The suspense is killing me. Now everyone of you, bring out your sampling plugin, so that I can load them all into foobar and drive myself crazy.

over-sampling eating up your resources and produce less ... what for? right?

for foobar2k, i only stick to 96khz.... despite my sound card can support 24bit/192khz in stereo mode....

Can you tell the difference between 48khz and 96khz?? Is it have more clarity?

again it always depends on your hardware .... in my case, yes it is more clarity, projection, detailing, etc

What is current price for your X-Fi?? Does onboard AL888 really can produce 24bit/192Khz sample rate????

i bought it at RM900. i m not sure about realtek al888... sorry

but no point buying x-fi, maybe u could try out ASUS XONAR and there is a new sc coming up....

Is it good for music??Actually i dont like my foobar with many DSP plugin coz i think they all fake...the original and good quality sound only produced by the soundcard, not the audio enhancer or plug-in.

X-fi mainly design for gamers? but i do enjoy listening to all my audiophile CDs with WMP..... its fantastic!!! those plugs-in are to "colour" your music which is not "real"

actually music should stick with 44.1khz since the source is 44.1..
44.1, 48, 192 do hv different projection of sound in terms of clarity but not very noticeable..

i do believe that get as original as possible is what audiophiles seek for..

Placebo effect

But to do that you must have high end speaker and sound card...for people who can't afford the cost, they just install enhancer or plug-in..
Thats like Toyota AE86 install a turbo to compete with GTR34.

@ Angel of Deth

the SSRC package got two selection one is normal the other is SSE2 which one is better?



This post has been edited by xianyao: Oct 19 2008, 10:07 AM

If you using new processor, mostly no problem with the SSE2..Normal is 'safe-mode'..They just same

second that..

What is the best sound card for music?

audiotrak prodigy HD2.. [rm400 price range]

I tried using the resampler and set it at 96khz from normal 44khz, then I notice the sound bit different like... sounds bigger? That's what I heard


The difference is more noticeable with high bit rate (320kbps) and lossless songs, while not so obvious on low bit rate's (192kbps and below)

What resampler did you use?

connection.

usb-> spdif to zero dac. ZERO DAC supports upto 192kHz.


I also tried all kinds of resampling, 96,192, 48,44.1...

I cant tell the difference and in fact, I found the music more natural by disabling the resampling.

my question is USB is limited by 44.1/48kHz right. so by setting higher also it will output 44.1 to my spdif right.