![]() ![]() Add in a slew of preference and customization options and there’s enough to keep happy any audiophile within the vicinity. Enable BitPerfect, run iTunes as you normally would and the sound difference is like night and day-BitPerfect upscales the audio sent to the output device. Launch BitPerfect for the first time, designate which audio library you want it to use and it’ll quickly scan your iTunes library, inform you that it’s made changes to the library and is ready to begin working. The program, which resides in your OS X menu bar, can be quickly enabled or disabled with a click of the mouse. BitPerfect opens a world of clearer, more present sound that you never thought was possible from your Mac’s speakers.īitPerfect is sleek, minimal, unobtrusive, and powerful. Dubito che sia possibile utilizzare i driver ASIO su Foobar installato con Wine, comunque sarebbe un grosso sbattimento e non credo ne valga la pena. Mac App Store link) shows what iTunes music is capable of and is an audiophile’s dream. La gestione dell'audio in Linux tutta diversa da Windows e funziona gi bene cos senza dover installare driver particolari. It’s there, it does a serviceable job of managing and playing my music, it functions as a device hub and it does a good job of it. I enjoy music much more, regardless of lowres internet radio or highres flac tracks.In spite of the criticism levied against it, I tend to give iTunes the benefit of the doubt. When I got my HRT Music Streamer II, I had an experience like cotton was removed from my ears and suddenly sound was crystal clear. I also started with the idea that 'bitperfect' was my destination, but after lots of experimenting and frustration (internet radio, for example may sound way better when properly resampled) I got less religious about bitperfection. WASAPI is a Windows specific interface that serves similar purpose. You can think of it as an alternative to the Windows sound device drivers. could be used in Windows or Linux for example, if the audio device supports it. I suggest that you experiment with different configurations. 1) ASIO is a communication protocol between audio hardware and software. The caveat is that it locks your soundcard and desktop sounds like a ding or error won't get a chance to reach the sound card. Onboard sound will be totally ignored when you select the USB-DAC as sound output, similar to how a wired ethernet card is ignored when you select wifi as your connection.īitperfect does depend on the software that you use, Music Player Daemon is a great example that supports feeding a DAC without resampling. Your USB DAC will be recognized as a seperate sound card with it's own chipset. ![]() The problem mentioned in the post you refer to are related with the order of loading kernel modules, but you are able to specify which audio card is 0 and which is a higher number. Are there any other things I should consider before buying the USB DAC, as I am using Ubuntu only - no fallback possibility to WindowsHello Walter,Īny Linux or FreeBSD distro supports the Universal Audio Class (UAC), foolproof like plugging a monitor into a VGA port. Will the performance of ALSA, JACK or OSS be comparable to ASIO or WASAPI? (the Windows driver equivalents I have heard good things of) Is Ubuntu capable of bit-perfect output? (skipping the onboard re-sampling) If there is a piece in the chain that can not do what you want 24/96, and resamples to 16/44.1 then you wont get bit perfect 24/96 output. That said, you will still need to have hardware to ensure that the output from the player is bit perfect. Bitperfect audio on linux (or any OS, really) means your music player’s transport must connnect directly to the sound hardware without there being a mixer in the way.Why Two reasons: In order to mix, incoming audio streams all need to be resampled to a common audio format (usually 48kHz/16bit). How well does Ubuntu support USB DAC's? Has metadata information and is a player in its own right. ![]()
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