Oh, notice that the "Driver Signing" problems he talks about, come from the procedure concerned (which is just a computer program) rejecting it.

Not that it would be wrong (sounding) for that. But it isn't a good thing.

Yeah yeah, you removed that text by now.
But okay, I didn't take the screenshot for nothing ... (from the link you gave earlier; look in the bottom right corner).


I'm not sure what you mean by this ?
A driver made for Vista just should. Unless it's mangled with of course.

Hi again !

Can you post the output of "DAC Test" (at the bottom of the "DAC is" dropdown in the Settings Area) ?

I didn't look it up, but assuming you are using the "dogber" version, I estimate on that his tweaks made it worse. Remember, he did it to make Vista operate bit perfect, which was not applied to Exclusive Mode obviously. Now you can wonder how that was accidently mangled ...

Ok, besides that, I think everybody will say that any "onboard" sound device isn't the best thing to use. This is theory of course, but my HD-Audio onboard (not an interface card) ...

The means a DAC *has* to use when native DSD is played, I don't like. You could say that this is a kind of pulse width modulation, which is the worst case of a sigma/delta DAC. And I already don't like the latter ...
In the end this is related to the non oversampling principle (which e.g. sigma/delta cannot do). Let's say this is personal.

Please keep in mind that this is different from "some" means that converts the DSD data to normal PCM and *then* convert it to analogue (which exists on some players I think).

Peter

Hi DJ, welcome here, and thank you.

Like hybride says. However, it should be as easy to appoint the sound device concerned as standard device (or default device it may say). See below; third option in that menu.

In the end, the one with the green mark is the one which will be used by Engine#3.

Peter

It is strongly advised to not use your system without a preamp (or the pre-amp at max volume for that matter) if you or your speakers won't be able to handle a situation that e.g. the file contains wrongly formatted data or otherwise - because of which cracks may emerge with an energy beyond imagination.

Edit : This version, but most probably up till a few earlier versions as well, are wrong at Double/Upsampling. For now, please don't use Double/Upsample.
Edit2 : ... and the same accounts for Quad/Upsampling.

Added in this version (Engine#3 only) :

• A virtual independency from any rare, strange and wrong WAV container header formats.
  
  Note that each WAV file can be encapsulated in another format, but that somewhere the normal WAV data must start, including the preceeding normal WAV header data. If that is not there or wong, an appropriate error message follows.
  
  
• 44100/16 WAV data can now Quadrupled to 176400, with or without Upsampling (see the new Quad checkbox in the left pane);
  
  Upsampling is performed to 176400/16 when the DAC is 16 bits or to 176400/18 when the DAC is 18 bits or more, the latter therewith being genuine upsampling.
  Note that currently any higher samplerate than 44100 cannot even be Doubled (let alone Quadrupled); the same counts for any 24 bit file.
  Also, an input of 176400 (or higher ) is not supported yet.
  
  Edit : For 176400 it looks like this needs a (soundcard) buffer of 128 samples at least (that is, 96 doesn't work).
  
  
• An attempt has been made to better shutdown the Soundcard / DAC after playing.
  
  Over time few people reported anomalies at Stop Playing, like the DAC could keep on repeating its last buffer. Although these anomalies in nearly all cases could be solved by better drivers, from the XX side enhancements were possible too;
  Whether what has been applied now helps for the cases left is unknown, but please report if you find things to behave differently.
  
  Important : As an implication it is not possible anymore to run Engine#3 with ThreadPriority Low (Settings Area). Most probably people did not use this lowest setting anway.
  
  

An unavoidable change has been applied to XXEngine3 which may influence sound for native 44.1/16 files.

No don't mail them. It's already solved here Leo (0.9u-5).
I don't think there's anything anymore that won't play now, if it's for unofficial (yeah what is that) header data.

Yep, I tried The Gysy Life (last track of that album), and it doesn't look good.
Now tell me, my free download (which you get at obtaining your userid etc.) just does work.

Now why.

Actually the most important for me would be whether you can copy the behaviour after the startup of XX, and never play anything.

Oh, that 352.8KHz will be supported in the next version. Untested though. Hahaha.

About DSD, I'm not sure. Personally I don't think it will sound good.

But you will be able to tell me a few more things I think. Ok, you just told that if XX is not running it doesn't happen. That kind of things .
If you can't tell anything else and it really is random, please buy another PC , no matter whether it's only happening when XX is there.

On the other questions, could you please put them in their own topic ?

... but as I said elsewhere, I will try to explicitly more shutdown the DAC after playing. So maybe awaiten that before looking for things which can be solved by me anyway.

I think I said it before ?


(from your sig)