Robd2

Thanks for the quick reply and great writeup SHP. Yes I'm also excited to bring a C47 home soon. I'll post a review once she's up.

Hi SHP, I wanted to see how you liked the new C47. I'm close to taking one home soon also.

Great info for a newbie so thank you so much. I've been auditioning the Transparent (performance vs high performance).

Hi Guys, I’m getting a test computer ready so I can play with the optimizer. Question about hardware ids and the activation license. I’m enabling and disabling multiple devices as I “experiment”. Is this going to trigger the optimizer to request a new activation id? For example I’m turning an onboard cd drive on and off. Thanks again, Rob

Good info guys, thank you.

Loving the forum, great info all around which is really increasing my sound quality. Starting to plan out a dedicated computer build but for the time being need a USB cable upgrade. Right now running a stripped down laptop to the DAC in a McIntosh Integrated amp (5200). Any recommendations on USB Cable/Device upgrades? Budget is sort of “open” but not crazy high.

Good info Phil. With AO do you do anything special to get kernel streaming to work? I’ve never been able to get that working across different PCs and DACs.

Thanks for the response Phil. Nothing jumps out in the Event Viewer but will look closer tonight. Some of this research I’m doing into the driver/device options is so I can get ready to use your AUDIOPHILE OPTIMIZER. I think I figured out my problems with WSAPI stopping playback. There is a small control panel that gets installed with the McIntosh ASIO driver. You can set the latency and sampling rate format. There is also a check box to allow ASIO to automatically change the sampling rate format. I think there is also a process “mcaudcp.exe” that manages this. These are the newer internal DACs within the McIntosh integrated amps. This all works great when using the ASIO option. My problem is that the WSAPI option sounds much better in the current config. I think the WSAPI option cannot automatically change the sampling rate format as the ASIO driver does and thus stops playback when a different file format is used (44 to 96). Maybe… Id love to hear your thoughts on this Phil as maybe it doesn’t matter as I would be using kernel streaming after running your AUDIOPHILE OPTIMIZER??? Thanks again, Rob

Max did you ever get your problem sorted out? I'm actually struggling with sound quality issues using the McIntosh ASIO driver. When using JRiver WSAPI is so much cleaner sounding but not stable when switching between file formats. Curious about what others are using for driver selection when these McIntosh DACs are in use. Thanks again, Rob