Sound card that will not re-sample output

9designs2

9designs2

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Hi guys, asking here and not in the PC section, because I'm looking for a new sound card that does not change the sample frequency of the original file.

I believe my old SB Live, re-samples everything to 48Khz, and then back again to 44.1 in the case of CD etc. I also read WMP player changes it as well.

TBH I'm stabbing a bit in the dark, not fully up with it, but I want a card that is bit for bit, constant sample rate, and outputs to a SPDIF. Low Jitter, I think I need it to use ASIO drivers ???

So Far M-Audio 2492 is on my list. Or would a USB style device be better.

Can anyone explain what the heck I'm on about ??? :confused:

Trying to rig PC as a "high end" music server to an outboard DAC
 
How much are you willing to spend? You could spend £500 on a soundcard and still not get what you want...
 
My M-Audio Revo 5.1 outputs 44khz PCM as 44khz. Using digital out to av pre-amp. Although I guess I have no idea if there's internal re-sampling like you said above, unless you dig around the technical reviews.
 
I've got the 2492, tis excellent, has ASIO drivers that completely bypass the windows mixer and dont do any re-sampling at all. Very good sound quality for the cash, the nice DAC helps there.

Still no vista drivers though :/
 
Done some more reading, and it does seem I need to use the ASIO drivers, to keep sample rate constant. Found a sight that does a utility for this, (link is at home!!)
BUT I don't think my SB Live will support it. Was thinking 2492 or the 24192. But poor driver support was putting me off.
WMP will cause it to re-sample, though I don't know if Media Monkey I use will or not.
Not wanting to spend 500 quid though...:(
 
9designs2, I know my Revo analogue outputs are ASIO, but unsure if digital out. Is there a way of checking it works? I've used the Asio plugin in Winamp, works with analogue output, but silence on digital out.
 
How much do you want to spend on your soundcard? Try out the Asio4all utility to start with. It is extremely good for all Asio sound related issues.

I would imagine that you have some resampling option selected on the sound card.
 
I believe the Creative X-Fi will let you output at 44.1 in Audio Creation mode. You can also run it with ASIO drivers and resample if required. X-Fi Music can nbe had for around £50.
 
Koncept_1 said:
How much do you want to spend on your soundcard? Try out the Asio4all utility to start with. It is extremely good for all Asio sound related issues.

I would imagine that you have some resampling option selected on the sound card.
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I'm not sure price has anything to do with the issue, but like to keep it under £100.
ASIO4all, is the site I was trying to think of. Plus just following link to http://kxproject.lugosoft.com.
My fear is from what I read, the SB is hardware locked at 48Khz.
To honest never liked the thing, so much "bloatware" is installed, I wouldn't have another SB card.
 
9designs2, if you know of a way to test ASIO SPDIF output, I'll try it on my M-Audio. Just tried the Asio plugin for Winamp, no audio.
 
badbob said:
9designs2, if you know of a way to test ASIO SPDIF output, I'll try it on my M-Audio. Just tried the Asio plugin for Winamp, no audio.
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Still learning myself, try the links above, a lot of info on those pages, and free software to try.
 
Trying out that ASIO4ALL app, in winamp the slider doesn't adjust volume, so I presume it's working? However it's clicking. There are latency settings in the m-audio driver, left it on 512 as standard. Winamp ASIO has latency setting as does ASIO4ALL. Bit confused what to set, and to what.
 
Just tried a dts wave, I hear static. Tried winamp, wmp, wmp classic. Only in vlc does it have audio, but it displays 44.1 khz PCM, not DTS. When I set "use spdif if available " in VLC DTS flashes on the amp, but doesn't lock on.
 
EMU 0404 (PCI version) for the win.

lol @ people constantly suggesting x-fi's for everything no matter what..
 
Well the C-Media based card does look very tempting, if those drivers work ok.
The way I look at it, any card will be the same once it's passing bit perfect data out of the SPDIF. So I shouldn't have any sound quality difference once that is achieved.

What chip set is a EMU0404, is it confirmed bit perfect ?
 
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