Improve your music playback

This guide is mainly aimed at all those people who have an audigy soundcard, and to a lesser extent , those using their onboard AC'97 sound , and those who care to have good sound quality ( and by that i mean more detail in the sound , not better bass...

great guide greenhorn!
the src plugin works for me, but couldnt get the asio to work in winamp (dont wanna use foobar)

the weirdest thing is that a lot of things which didnt work on my audigy work on the Nvidia onboard ... funny how such a $$$ creative soundcard can get Pwned by the onboard
hey ASIO worked only at 48 Khz on my audigy 2ZS , but the volume control did not work

but on the other hand the out_ds_ssrc worked fine , even upto 96/24... give it a try.. its a tried and tested option for winamp users on the audigy 2ZS

and dont forget to turn off all the audigy's effects.. the CMSS , EAX, Equalizer, speaker calibrator even!

yes am using the ds_ssrc for winamp. works perfect. although using at 48hz as it sounded exactly the same as 96hz on the audigy 2 zs. dint notice any difference. also the asio plugin worked with winamp but as greenhorn said couldnt use the volume controller & also with asio in winamp it dint work at 96hz , it only worked at 48hz. but i am satisfied with the ds_ssrc cause it sounds same as the asio i tried on the aud2zs in winamp just now @ 48hz & is much better than the old ds plugin i used.

the reason to go 96/24 is that it gives a much cleaner path to playback

thats the audigy2 zs architecture ..IIRC!

will prolly give it a try again.

btw in the winamp out_ds_ssrc plugin. what settings are u using for dithering & noise distribution

here be the settings

btw, interested in why its so? there is a simple article explaining dither

wow great... i love this article :d

The path at the extreme bottom is what was added for dvd-audio playback. It completely bypasses the EMU10K2 dsp and uses an intermediate chip called P16V(if u look up creative driver files, u'll find a file by that name). This is some sort of PCI bus mastering chip which creative modified and is now selling as the live 24bit/audigy se. The good thing is that this is a pretty nice hack to get non resampled audio out of the card straight to the DAC. The resampler in the EMU chip is total crap .

^^ what resampling? EMU supports 44.1khz natively.

^^Duh... the EMU10k2 dsp only supports 16bit/48kHz

if it did , i'd never have to write this guide

am having a diff problem with 96000hz. when i go forward or jump to any location of the track the audio volume increases or decreases. lets say the default volume is 1. i go forward in the track by clicking ahead somewhere the volume becomes 1.7 & then i click forward or back again on the track anywhere the volume becomes 1 again. it keeps switching between these 2 volumes when i click to jump ahead.

any idea? it works fine on 48hz

well, you talking about the chip, and I'm talking about the card

well i was talking about it too
but yup... misunderstood you this time

btw, stormblast, check your settings
here are mine ... no issues on seeking here

have the same settings here.

only diff is where the card name is written mine is [AC00] & yours shows as [DC80], dont know what this is for.

it is seeking properly but volume changes when i seek.