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I also went a step further and changed out the $20 USB add on card I'd originally used for an "audiophile grade" card that runs rings around anything else I've tried.
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Mine has the Tenor chipset which really sings here. Not a stumble or stutter since upgrading to W8 and turning sound handling over to WASAPI, which is the next best thing to bit perfect and requires no additional drivers.
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Īnd yes, I did have latency issues on ALL inputs to the DAC with XP Pro due to DirectSound. Asus Xonar and E-Mu both get good reviews, but both hit the drawer of doom shortly due to inconsistent performance and lockups. Good shielding on the card itself and complete isolation from the standard channels = Not a peep since.Ī couple high end sound cards also were epic fails IMHO.
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Solution there was to install an add on card that created it's own USB channel and draws power directly from the power supply instead of the system buss. Biggest problem still facing USB is RF noise inside the computer itself - I know mine had some serious interference due to the wireless mouse and keyboard. The built in USB support ain't all that great either. My computer has Realtek sound, which suffers severe suckage, so that rules out both optical and coaxial. The standard is ancient and how it performs is completely up to whether whoever built your motherboard took the time to RTFM. S/PDIF (coaxial and optical) have their own associated issues. Being a WindOHs! device was problematic with DirectSound (or mfg drivers), but not so with WASAPI USB only requires a driver IF the DAC requires it. Maybe your grandpa had issues with USB, but the tech has improved immensely over time. But from what I see it's getting much better and a serious contender for premium sound. I think it's come a long way and when done right can sound amazing.
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With newer implementations that is not an issue any longer but the power and signal clocking can still be impaired by either Windows itself, other drivers or a poor power supply. Early on USB was slow enough it could barely handle it all. There can be any number of other devices sharing a USB bus that also impact it's performance. While my new motherboard offers a substantially improved USB system internally, it was seriously hampered by an internal network card that impacted it's performance horribly. And some of the buffering required by the DAC's is to allow them time to put together a stabilized package that can be sent to the DAC for processing. What many of those external widgets attempt to do is stabilize it enough to maintain correct timing to the output device. It can be hampered by the stability of the power, other resource usage, overloading of the bus, etc. USB as implemented in many systems is less than stable.