Again to reference an external thread
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=164648The Key quotes here would be....
That's interesting. In my original post, I discovered the only way to listen to music with Media Jukebox using their ASIO driver is to enable the Monitor Mixer (#2 above).
And in reply
You are bypassing the KMixer only if the client software can talk directly to the hardware mixer. If client software is controlling the hardware mixer you would not have to enable in the Delta Control Panel. I don't know if MJ does hardware mixer or not. ASIO should bypass the KMixer in any case.
And also
Cliff is the expert but from my limited understanding when you do that you undergo 2 sample rate conversions on the card.
Input format to internal 36 bit representation. any processing that happens on the mixer on the card (mainly volume control and mixing multiple tracks) and then resulting signal to 16bit S/PDIF output.
I am just trying to bring these to your attention....
Also I remember readin that all sound is resampled in the app to 32 Bit... Is this the case for 16 bit CD audio ?? Is this resampling possible to turn off as an option otherwise the ASIO bit perfect plug in may not be giving us this anyway...
Personally I am all for having the option to upsample and oversample up to 24 / 192 or whatever for testing checking and experiments but perhaps this ample rate conversion is why the goldern eared seem to prefer w..... with APE and sometimes MAD ??