big_willy

Noel: I've purchased a Firewire Expresscard and not using the onboard firewire. All works fine now. Still using windows vista. It must be the firewire chipset which is used in our laptops.

Thanks for the update - If Windows 7 doesn't work out, I'll be picking up a Mac Mini. We'll just have to wait and see.

I just tried adjusting the output in foobar and it didn't do anything - same result.

I'm 99% sure it's not foobar. The same issue manifests itself when you're testing the signal in Windows.

Well, I sure hope Windows 7 will solve our issue. I wonder if the problem is related to hardware or if it's an o/s issue. XP doesn't seem to have this problem so my hopes are high that Windows 7 will work. I also have the free upgrade so I'm waiting on that. Probably won't receive it until late Nov-Dec. Daniel - we're all compulsive, degenerate audiophiles and need HELP!!! I can't sleep, can't eat, and have been spending every night with my system trying to fix this issue.

I had the same problem with the new 3.5.0.6735 Weiss program as well at first but it seems to work ok now. I would install the program and the BSOD of pop up when I would try to link up the Weiss and have the computer detect it. I uninstalled and reinstalled again. The BSOD came up again and I had to reboot. This time before the computer rebooted I already had the Weiss unit powered up and the program detected it fine. I just leave the Weiss unit on all the time now and don't power it down and I haven't had any problems. Regarding the theory that the problem is realted to HDMI, but I have tried disabling the HDMI without any success. So you have already tried windows 7 on your laptop and the result is the same????

Well, at least it's good to know I'm not alone here. So this is an issue which should be looked at. Daniel has suggested I upgrade to Windows 7. I'm eagerly awaiting the release and will give it a try. If you do run into a solution please let me know, as it's really frustrating that I can't listen to high rez music in it's native sampling rate. It sounds so much better that way.

I did do a clean reinstall of the Weiss driver yesterday and same result. Daniel: I will be trying your new driver tonight and will report back. I think it has something to do with the Weiss driver, the reason is when I'm in windows setting the sampling rate, there is a box you can click on to "TEST" and windows sends out a test chime/sound. The test sound also comes out as static/gibberish when I'm testing 16/44.1, 24/44.1 etc... 16/48, 24/96,24/192 is all fine. FYI - my laptop is a Toshiba Sat. A350 with firewire (4pin).

Could you perhaps give some suggestions... at least with that it gives me something to work on, or some ideas. I've really tried everything I can possibly think of. Drivers, settings, different software, WASPI, ASIO... I'm close to a point where I just going to break the damn computer and buy a MAC.

I'm using Vista 64bit, firewire output, Foobar ASIO - any sampling rate output to the DAC in 44.1 or multiples of (ie: 176.4) come out very staticy sound, undiscernable, gibberish. When I let windows set the sampling rate and upsample to say 24/196 sent to the dac, all is well. I've spent over 2 weeks trying to figure this out with no avail. Pls help Daniel has been responsive but no solution is found as yet.