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Ripped Wav file does not sound close to the Original CD [Solved]

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mbagge:
Many video cards with an hdmi output, will route audio from the soundcard perfectly.
Just to get the facts right. When you rip to wav or flac format, ALL the bits from the cd is preserved especially if you have chosen secure rip.
So far so good, next you have to decide what sound processing you want to do in MC. Maybe you prefer a straight through  solution by selecting wasapi event style and keeping source bitlength.
Lastly doing the transport of the bits to the receiver. Configure your soundcard as an two speaker setup, (your receiver will do all decoding if playing surround). Make sure that your receiver plays two speaker stereo.
This way ALL the bits from your cd-rip arrives at your receiver and you should be able to enjoy the full sound quality.

If your receiver is dlna ready, you bypasses all the sound card drivers and windows components involved and eliminate potential jitter in the digital connection. In my experience the ultimate way of transporting the bits untouched.

trcns:
First all thanks every for such fast response. These responses really help you someone like is stuck and need immediate help.

Hi Matt:
I looked at the link you posted, only questions I have are
What is “Leave mixing set to JRSS v2.0 for the best quality output.”
Also the sound card support 24 bit. But if switch it 24bit /96Khz is it not forcing it higher ever if the is in lower bit rate?

Vocalpoint
I have two sound cards, one built in on mother board which disabled in the bios of PC. Second is this HDMI card which is the primary sound card, so I left it as is. But I can change the option to specify this card. Its Dell PC 4.3 GHZ dual core CPU. I believe its e550 about 3 years old.

Mbagge
I ripped all CDs wav and flac formats with secure rip. I don’t know what is “wasapi event style” and how the set it. I just check its not dlna ready.
Now If I set my computer to 2 speakers only, do I need to change them back 7.1 while watching move through it?

trcns:
Now would it help if I change this video card and buy a separate SPIF (Optical digital card)?

JimH:

--- Quote from: trcns on November 07, 2011, 12:02:39 pm --- I don’t know what is “wasapi event style” and how the set it.

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Tools/Options/Audio

mbagge:
Ok then, you will be just fine transporting the audio stream through hdmi, s/pdif is not better in that respect.

Once I got an understanding on how audio was treated in a PC  ::), I decided to have as little audio processing done in the pc as possible. Many others for their reasons have chosen to use MC as the decoding and sound processing center and I am not judging on the best way only that this works better for me. It sometime confuses things because MC can do a lot of what is going on in a receiver.

In MC, Tools, Options, Audio, Output mode is where you select wasapi event mode. This option tells windows to leave the audio stream untouched. You should activate your onboard audio and make that your default output and select in the MC audio settings that you want to use your HDMI Output driver. This way all of the Windows beeps will go to default output and not to your receiver.

To separate stereo settings from surround settings, you should create two zones under 'Playing Now' in the navigation pane on the left, just right click. Then select the zone you will optimize settings for. Once finished fiddling around with the audio settings in the two zones, MC will open the audio channel the way you want.

Remember that it is your receiver that is doing the decoding, it detects PCM, AC3, DTS and probably many other formats. Your soundcard is not aware of this as the transport only is a kind of pass-through.

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