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Devices => Sound Cards, DAC's, Receivers, Speakers, and Headphones => Topic started by: eddieg69 on October 09, 2013, 10:58:00 am

Title: no blue light with dragonfly
Post by: eddieg69 on October 09, 2013, 10:58:00 am

I recently got a Dragonfly USB dac which I am using with Media center 19.0.32. The blue light for the audio path is not on. Says using direct sound (not a direct connection). For audio device I have selected Audioquest Dragonfly (Direct Sound). For device setting I only have the option of channels and buffering. What am I missing. Thanks

Title: Re: no blue light with dragonfly
Post by: mwillems on October 09, 2013, 11:57:30 am

Quote from: eddieg69 on October 09, 2013, 10:58:00 am

I recently got a Dragonfly USB dac which I am using with Media center 19.0.32. The blue light for the audio path is not on. Says using direct sound (not a direct connection). For audio device I have selected Audioquest Dragonfly (Direct Sound). For device setting I only have the option of channels and buffering. What am I missing. Thanks

"Direct sound" is the name of the default windows driver interface, and direct sound output goes through the system mixing panel (i.e. despite the name it is not a direct connection).  If you want a direct connection try selecting WASAPI or ASIO (if the dragonfly supports it) in the output device options (i.e. try selecting "Audioquest Dragonfly (WASAPI)")

Title: Re: no blue light with dragonfly
Post by: eddieg69 on October 22, 2013, 06:29:32 pm

Using windows xp, no wasapi or asio available. Wasapi is available with windows 7 but that is not the pc I want to use the dragonfly with. Installed Asio4all and everything seems to be okay now. Thanks for the help.