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<blockquote data-quote="tourettes" data-source="post: 874630" data-attributes="member: 10858">offtopic...&nbsp;There is either a failure in the software or HW / driver level is audio stream gets &quot;corrupted&quot; or altered when playing a pure WAV data (like CD). Of course resampling or some other damaging algorithms could get used for some reason like:&nbsp;<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">OS mixer doing dirty work (WASAPI / ASIO etc. exclusive modes will sort this out)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Software volume control is applied</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Channel up/down mixign is done</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">EQ is done</li>
</ul>If audio HW supports 44.1Khz 16 bit then a good test is to play some stereo AC3 file with BASS player (unless amp has some weird issue with the wrong headers...). If the audio is garbage then the audio pipeline has some issue(s). At least lossless audio should be possible to be played with 1:1 for the source (CD, flac...).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tourettes, post: 874630, member: 10858"] offtopic... There is either a failure in the software or HW / driver level is audio stream gets "corrupted" or altered when playing a pure WAV data (like CD). Of course resampling or some other damaging algorithms could get used for some reason like: [LIST] [*]OS mixer doing dirty work (WASAPI / ASIO etc. exclusive modes will sort this out) [*]Software volume control is applied [*]Channel up/down mixign is done [*]EQ is done [/LIST] If audio HW supports 44.1Khz 16 bit then a good test is to play some stereo AC3 file with BASS player (unless amp has some weird issue with the wrong headers...). If the audio is garbage then the audio pipeline has some issue(s). At least lossless audio should be possible to be played with 1:1 for the source (CD, flac...). [/QUOTE]

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