It is to bad that plexamp has no option to play bitperfect with asio drivers. Now I only can use the windows driver. With is software conversion. Most DAC’s come with an Asio driver so please my suggestion is to support that.

The least “bit-perfect” part of your audio chain is likely speakers / headphones. Even for super high-end equipment, check out the frequency response and you will see they are not even remotely flat in the audible band, and if you go back far enough you’ll find that the studio monitors that the mus…

[image] jmd7m: At the moment I’m just not sure Plexamp aims to be bit-accurate We do, and it should be clear from all the work we’ve done over the years, including: Smart/strict sample rate matching (great example of the tradeoff between being perfect and accurate). Sample rate switching on…

Thank you @elan . I’m looking forward to trying out the fixed sample rate option. Exposing the sampling rate converter options would also be great, but BASS doesn’t seem to have much in the way of options, just the number of points for the sinc conversion. r8brain and SoX have more options that th…

I wonder how in a thread like this about bit-perfect and it is agreed that in the end the WASAPI Exclusive solution is (rightly) a very good compromise someone proposes some sort of upsampling that will still have to go (or did I misunderstand?) through the Windows mixer can be a viable solution. If…

[image] jmd7m: What about when running a headless Plexamp (e.g. running on RoPieee on a Pi) – does it work like Plex or Plexamp? Headless is Plexamp audio pipeline.

No one said you can’t have both a way to avoid Windows mixer, which only affects Windows users, and a better approach to consistent sample rates, which affects everyone. @elan indicated Plex has looked at ASIO and will not be implementing, but is considering WASAPI exclusive mode.

[image] jmd7m: is considering WASAPI exclusive mode. Testing the code and it seems to work well.

Sort of related on the side, since talking about bit perfect playback. Audiofiles like to see their signal path and how it goes through to the speakers. So a simple visual of “file” -->> Sample Rate/Bit Depth -->> DAC → speaker. Something like that. Its a visual thing but it gives user immediat…

[image] Ryuzaki_2: Its a visual thing but it gives user immediate feedback Agreed, something like that would be very nice to show.

I agree, we really need WASAPI！

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