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hey everybody, I just fixed my problem. i now have different waveforms and different volume levels. I changed something in the MAGIX program and ultimately went into windows and changed the microphone input to 2 channel 16 bit 44.1. thanks all, john

now I think the problem may be w/ windows/behringer since the waveforms looked the same w/ both MAGIX & audacity, even though I had the stereo tab engaged on both. just went into windows control panel but could not even locate the behringer USB device. hmmm...

hi y'all, I am currently using "MAGIX audio cleaning lab 2013" w/ a behringer UCA222 to transfer my vinyl records to digital format. this is the problem: I think it is panning the channels together and I don't see an option to change it. in other words, in the left channel I am hearing the left AND right channels and in the right channel I am hearing the left AND right channels. this is really the proof in the pudding for me (in a bad way). though also, I thought it was suspicious from the beginning that when recording, the waveforms for the left and right channels were identical as well as the volume levels for the left and right channels. I tried audacity but it was not user friendly at all and it also seemed to pan the channels together as the waveforms for the left and right channels were identical. there has got to be a transferring software out there that keeps the stereo information in the correct channels. thanks, john

I don't feel like I want to go down the DSD road. I may however start with implementing a linear power supply for the PC. do you have any linear power supplies that you would like to suggest. also, it is 1.90 Ghz with 4 gb of RAM and I just noticed the WMP glitched a lil too so maybe it's not the foobar per say...if I'm going to be using foobar do I need to download some WASAPI thing on the foobar website to get a better sound?

so I've been using foobar2000 for just an hour or so now and the music seems to glitch every so often. I'm not sure if I remember windows media player glitching like this. though I did notice the sound to be a lil bit better with foobar. is the foobar glitching maybe because foobar requires more RAM to run than windows media player or something? any help appreciated.

I plan on getting the Schiit Gungnir USB DAC in the coming days. I like the fact that it has a separate DAC chip for each channel, is fully balanced, and is made in America. anyway, from there the signal will be going to my emotiva XSP-1 G2 pre-amp, then my emotiva UPA-1 amps and onto my selah audio verita monitors (w/ RAAL 70-20xr ribbon tweeter and a scan speak paper coned illuminator series woofer) thanks for your comments. maybe I will try foobar since it is free. what is a plug in and will I need one with foobar to make it sound better? also,what are the best cheapest ways to help keep computer generated electrical noise under control? is RAM that important for sound quality? I'm not even sure what kind of budget I have for this. I would also be interested in learning how to keep jitter at a minimum. now, I'm not sure if this is true, but one person told me jitter is not as important as people think. the information may come in a lil off, but it will still ultimately be read as a one or a zero.

thanks alaingr for the warm welcome. so, I'm gathering that the playback software itself does not matter so much at least as far as 44.1 k files are concerned...I also was wondering if the amount of RAM one's computer has will have any affect on the sound...thanks again.

hi y'all, I'm new to computer audio. I plan on using my dell laptop (windows 7) to send 44.1k WAV files to a USB DAC and then onto the rest of my stereo system. my question is, since I'm not going to be playing hi-rez files (for now), is windows media player good enough? someone on another forum said something about jriver. though, if jriver doesn't sound any better than windows media player for 44.1 k files then I see no need to switch. thanks for any helpful responses, john