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<blockquote data-quote="KevL" data-source="post: 751794" data-attributes="member: 11798">You can get decent sound out of a windows pc. Search this forum for &quot;bit perfect&quot;Asio4all will give many (most????) soundcards a fair chance of bypassing windows habit of resampling your audio - when it works properly it will sound very good and you pc volume control will be bypassed - this is a good sign.As suggested previously use foobar as a test setup. Get Asio4all providing asio interface for it working. You might have to mess about with lots of settings to get sound working from foobar to asio4all (e.g. various buffer sizes, latancy settings, wordwidth) but eventually sound will probably come out. A possible problem with onbard realtek type MB sound is they tend to be stuck at one bitrate. (can be driver version specific) so you might find it works at say 44.1 but then nothing happens when you squirt 48k audio at it.Once foobar/asio4all works then try configuring pureaudio plugin and setting it to use asio4all. Ive had little success with the MP Music player ASIO o/p direct and you also have to make sure that the music player does not mess with you audio (e.g. fading in /out etc nneds to be disabled and also gain of Music player audio needs to be 100% else any format with encrypted audio will get messed up and will sound like white noise - volume on amp set low to avoid damage to speakers) Persevere and you can get it to work.&nbsp; You are correct about non asio sound being low quality from a PC. If all else fails there are cheap &lt;£10 audio cards which will give you an spdif out and work well with asio4all.K</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KevL, post: 751794, member: 11798"] You can get decent sound out of a windows pc. Search this forum for "bit perfect" Asio4all will give many (most????) soundcards a fair chance of bypassing windows habit of resampling your audio - when it works properly it will sound very good and you pc volume control will be bypassed - this is a good sign. As suggested previously use foobar as a test setup. Get Asio4all providing asio interface for it working. You might have to mess about with lots of settings to get sound working from foobar to asio4all (e.g. various buffer sizes, latancy settings, wordwidth) but eventually sound will probably come out. A possible problem with onbard realtek type MB sound is they tend to be stuck at one bitrate. (can be driver version specific) so you might find it works at say 44.1 but then nothing happens when you squirt 48k audio at it. Once foobar/asio4all works then try configuring pureaudio plugin and setting it to use asio4all. Ive had little success with the MP Music player ASIO o/p direct and you also have to make sure that the music player does not mess with you audio (e.g. fading in /out etc nneds to be disabled and also gain of Music player audio needs to be 100% else any format with encrypted audio will get messed up and will sound like white noise - volume on amp set low to avoid damage to speakers) Persevere and you can get it to work. You are correct about non asio sound being low quality from a PC. If all else fails there are cheap <£10 audio cards which will give you an spdif out and work well with asio4all. K [/QUOTE]

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