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Howdy,

I've downloaded Dire Straits "Money for Nothing" song as a 6ch flac. The size is "whopping" 500 megabytes, only for this song. Im using asus strix dsp gaming head set(yes virtualized surround). However, if using standard stereo headset on an pc and with replayer that can decode DSD stream (DSF/DFF), does it cut out those missing audio channels when using stereo headphones?

i believe that depends on the replayer alone, if it auto-detects you have the 6 outputs it'll send you the 6, if it detects you only have plain stereo it should do the conversion/mixdown and send you 2ch stereo.

would be ideal for karaoke bars if audio channels were cut out!

@psenough

Thanks, one more question, when listening an basic mp3 with an replayer, should i use DirectSound, Asio or Wasapi output for so called bit-perfect sound quality?

Can you hear the difference between bit-perfect and non-perfect output? Because if not, just ignore this audiophile junk. That said, DirectSound needs to die, so either use ASIO or WASAPI in exclusive mode (otherwise it won't be ZOMG BIT PERFECT!111eleven).

Copy it to a tape by putting a boombox in front of the speaker. Listen to tape in a Sony Walkman™

500 meg wasted.

what saga said. scnr

Noober here again, went to my friend house. He have oldie but goodie Auzentech 7.1 soundcard with hw DD/DTS decoder embedded. The soundcard is connected via optical tos-link cable to logitech z-5500 5.1 speaker system DD/DTS/PLII hw decoding "pod".

works and sounds incredibly good when watching DD/DTS movies. But i want to know, which one actually does the audio decoding, auzentech in hardware or logitech decoding unit?

Downloaded XMPlay, installed DSD plugin along with asio4all v2 and wasapi. Especially money for nothing 6ch flac(96 khz, 8035kb/s) sounds a lot better with asio vs DirectSound.

And for asio vs wasapi, didnt hear any sound quality differences rather than wasapi "killed all audio and lights" during playback :D

Ditched foobar2000, now using XMPlay with "Aiwa rack" skin.

jsyk, foobar2000 also has ASIO and WASAPI-plugins for output and DSD-plugin for input.
https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_out_asio
https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_out_wasapi
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/files/foo_input_sacd/

Also the Auzentech should have its own ASIO drivers, so there is no need for asio4all.
If not, see here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20151027161040/http://forums.creative.com/showthread.php?t=735111
and here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4veZnyFbxW4UlFuVzh3ME91TGM

ASIO4All and WASAPI in exclusive mode are more less the same thing anyway. jsyk. ASIO4All does not give your audio interface magical capabilities that the regular Windows audio system would lack.

moredhel: Wow, I'm sure that 40 kHz ultrasound is well appreciated by any bats and dogs in your house.

High dynamic range and high sample rates make some sense in audio production, when there's going to be editing and processing, but I'm not entirely convinced of the benefits for the consumer side of things.

There are pretty much none that are relevant for actual music listening.

apart that it sounds good and that you're in the eye of the cyclone?

About 24/96 etc: Yes, good for production but completely senseless and even potentially worse for music storage/listening.

https://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

A thousand times what kb_ just posted. And in particular, watch the related video if you haven't done so yet.

I'll vouch for the xiph stuff as well. Monty <3