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Asus Xonar Essence STX ASIO settings?

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jesseinsf:
Read my last post below :-)

If you right click the Asus Audio driver in the Task bar and choose ASIO you get the option to change the bitdepth., 24, and 32. What is the best setting since the Actual card supports only 24 bit. When I choose 32 bit then MC will output at that bitdepth then I would guess my card would continue down-converting to 24 bit. So my question is, would it be better to set the driver to 24 bit rather than 32 bit? My guess is yes because it would be less messing with the audio output.

Audioseduction:
I think you set it at the highest bitdepth your DAC will support.

jesseinsf:
My DAC supports 24 bit. But I can Set my ASIO settings to 32 bit and everything still works. MC also reports that its output is 32 bit via ASIO. My question is: is this a good idea to set the ASIO settings to 32 bit where as my DAC supports up to 24 bit?

Matt:
The user selected bitdepth is ignored when using ASIO (the dialog does say this below the selection in the note, but it's easy to miss):
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Audio_Bitdepth#ASIO

This is a good thing.  It means there's one less thing to worry about if you use ASIO.

jesseinsf:
Actually this setting that I'm talking about is not within MC, it's in the ASIO driver settings. And it does have a visual effect in MC when I toggle the 3 available bitdepths. If you have an Asus sound card with the ASIO driver that was installed along with the sound card drivers then you can right click the Asus Driver management in the notification area and then chose "Asus Xonar ASIO", you then can change the Bitdepth and the time in ms. If I set a bitdepth to 16 bit then MC will show that it is outputting the file at 16 bit. If I change the ASIO driver to 32 bit then open MC it will show that it is outputting at 32 bit. (the same goes for 24 bit). Again my question is: If I keep the ASIO driver at a bitdepth of 32 bit will the sound card still down convert the file to 24 bit? if this is true then is it best to have the card's DAC  down convert the file to the supported bitdepth or should I set the ASIO driver to 24 bit so MC can output the music to the cards supported bitdepth?

Again this setting is NOT within MC. It is part of the sound card's driver settings for ASIO.

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