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MDAC first listen (part VII)
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Regardless of how much buffering you can do (within reason), if you are using any interface that offers no flow control (i.e. SPDIF), you need to tweak your local clock rate to match that of the incoming clock. You can do this very short term (at the cost of clock jitter) or longer term and rely upon buffering to get you out of trouble short term but the fact is that somehow, you have to match the incoming clock rate and once your clock rate is a moveable feast, its performance cannot be as good as a fixed clock.
If the receiver has flow control capability [which is the distinguishing feature of asynchronous USB compared to 'normal' USB] then your local clock can be optimized to run at its preferred rate and everything else is 'slave' to it.
The standard SPDIF interface is very much the tail wagging the dog.
finesensations
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I believe your comments should have been directed to Krisposs12, not me.
I don't know about Krisposs12 financial situation and it's for him to decide if he wants to stump up 30 quid for JRiver or try what I have suggested to get Foobar working properly or something else.
Personally I'm not looking for 'all-in-one' Audio/Video/Network/HTPC/Images software but maybe Krisposs12, or others, are.
And the tail doesn't belong to the dog in question either.
It's an odd world in which most participants in this thread will have stumped up at least GBP500 for an MDAC, yet are reticent to spend a small fraction of that amount on software. I bet most folks round here have spent more on their cables than their audio software
finesensations
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It's an odd world in which most participants in this thread will have stumped up at least GBP500 for an MDAC, yet are reticent to spend a small fraction of that amount on software. I bet most folks round here have spent more on their cables than their audio software
Deliberately or otherwise you have ignored the fact that 'Personally I'm not looking for 'all-in-one' Audio/Video/Network/HTPC/Images software ......' so JRiver is a non-starter.
It's an odd world in which most participants in this thread will have stumped up at least GBP500 for an MDAC, yet are reticent to spend a small fraction of that amount on software. I bet most folks round here have spent more on their cables than their audio software
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You can get JRiver free for 30 days and make up your own mind.
IMO, in the context of equipment talked about on this forum, £30 is an utterly trivial amount of money to spend, should you decide to.
killie99
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So is FREE. Apple is your friend.
sam_cat
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XBMC is free and was full wasapi support... And is far better than JRiver imho.
Anyway, this is a discussion for another thread..
Sam
mark.king
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I really like XBMC but I'm not sure it does bit perfect and doesn't do higher bit rates (Yet) If you have a folder structure as I do then XBMC is so easy to set up. I use Jriver MC but what a pain it was to setup when all I wanted it to do was use folder structure. I do like the being able to use more than one audio interface though and at the same time
finesensations
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AFAIK, only Windows update ATM.
Krisposs12
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Thanks for the advice finesensations, I may well try installing your configuration at some point if it comes to it. Currently am just trying out a different USB cable to see if the random failures disappear.
Incidentally, I prefer using Foobar as like yourself I'm not really into the fully integrated software (and although I'm just getting used to the nuances of USB audio I am no novice with computing so have no issues with spending time on configuring drivers and software). However, I may well buy JRiver since it allows me to watch my music/concert DVDs and blu-rays and output the sound bitperfect. £30 is reasonable for that I think. As someone pointed out re. the cost of cables, I've just shelled out more than twice that on a Wireworld Ultraviolet 5. Not that as a computer scientist I'm not a little suspicious about the benefit of such cables (with an asynchronous USB device especially, is jitter going to be vastly improved with such a cable over a standard one?)
Best regards,
Krisposs
mbaudis
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Only Windows versions are provided. I've been successful with VirtualBox+Win7, running on a MacMini. One has to add an USB device filter in the VirtualBox preferences (for the LakeWest USB device; in ports -> USB), and maybe to restart the M-DAC.
Only reason in recent memory I've used the Windows VM ...
sam_cat
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Pretty much everything I have music wise is ripped from my cds.. Bitperfect test passes fine.
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