Interesting post at Audioasylum (Off Topic)

by soundcheck , Germany, Sunday, July 02, 2006, 15:26 (6501 days ago) @ Eddie

Hi Eddie.

Good to see that you run the RAMdisk setup. I think that's the way to go.
You're as close to the processor as you can.
I just learned that mainly all PROs run their PCs with 2GB RAM.
All Mastering applications are running mainly from RAM.
What a pity that foobar is not supporting that kind of play-mode.
Anyhow, this still doesnt't prevent from lower soundquality caused
by bad coding of the involved drivers and applications.

Would be good if PeterST would consider such a RAMDISK mode in
his High_End-Player project.

When it comes to ASIO:

My choice goes definetly to the ASIO driver of USB-AUDIO.com
Give it (the test version- comes with a beep!)a try it is far
superior than the ASIO4ALL or Kernel Streaming setup.

From my limiting understanding, the specially compiled fb2kASIO plugins (sse3) are just the FB2K plugin compilations, which only provide the interface to ASIO4ALL or USB-AUDIO.com drivers.
Just another routine which negatively impacts the traffic!
But I think more important,as I wrote in the other post, ASIO4ALL is using the Microsoft-USB Audio driver. USB-Audio.com has rewritten that one.
This makes a real big difference.

Unfortunatly my Pentium M doesn't support sse3. sse2 on the fb2k 0.83
is defnitely worse than my 0.92 setup.
sse2 compilation loses a lot of details. It sounds very soft,
cutting of the edges

My ultimate choice (for now):
fb2k 0.92, 0.9 ASIO plugin, plus USB-Audio.com ASIO driver, plus RAMDISK.

As soon as I have a new computer I'll check out the sse3 compilation.

I'll soon do a FLAC comparison I'll let you know. Data wise it's the same
content in there, it is just compressed as a zip-file as far as I understood. I read that the decoding should work very quick with FLAC. Again i believe that the sounddifferences, if there are any, pretty much depend on the flac driver decoding the files.

Cheers
Klaus

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