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<blockquote data-quote="synthdood" data-source="post: 691492" data-attributes="member: 47606">I let my receiver do the DTS decoding. All MP needs to do is pass through the DTS stream untouched, I use the PureAudio plugin and ASIO4All driver for that. Fading would break the DTS encoding so that is out of the question anyway. I encode all my DTS wavs to flac so that I can add ID tags (something you can't do with wavs or ISOs). THis works perfectly. Since the flac files have ID tags MP can now index the files just like any other mp3 and by passing them lossless to the receiver the sound quality is much much better than using the soundcard. Really much better! I recently re-installed my media-PC and had some trouble getting ASIO to work with my soundcard in Win7 and thus I couldn't use lossless pass through for a while. It immediately struck me how different everything sounded now that the soundcard was doing the DA conversion. Something was missing in the highs and the lows were muddy and undefined. I was so glad when I managed to sort out the ASIO and be able to use pass through again. The point of this story: Forget the features and eye candy that the BASS engine can provide. Unless you have a very very good soundcard let your receiver do the decoding and play all you music lossless. It really does sound a lot better!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="synthdood, post: 691492, member: 47606"] I let my receiver do the DTS decoding. All MP needs to do is pass through the DTS stream untouched, I use the PureAudio plugin and ASIO4All driver for that. Fading would break the DTS encoding so that is out of the question anyway. I encode all my DTS wavs to flac so that I can add ID tags (something you can't do with wavs or ISOs). THis works perfectly. Since the flac files have ID tags MP can now index the files just like any other mp3 and by passing them lossless to the receiver the sound quality is much much better than using the soundcard. Really much better! I recently re-installed my media-PC and had some trouble getting ASIO to work with my soundcard in Win7 and thus I couldn't use lossless pass through for a while. It immediately struck me how different everything sounded now that the soundcard was doing the DA conversion. Something was missing in the highs and the lows were muddy and undefined. I was so glad when I managed to sort out the ASIO and be able to use pass through again. The point of this story: Forget the features and eye candy that the BASS engine can provide. Unless you have a very very good soundcard let your receiver do the decoding and play all you music lossless. It really does sound a lot better! [/QUOTE]

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