Recent content by wholepunch

Found this - with an excellent answer and a really interesting PDF embedded in the middle. http://superuser.com/questions/492281/from-a-quality-perspective-what-is-better-turning-volume-up-in-the-software-i Interested to see if there are any views on this.

One last thing, then I'll leave you all alone for at least 10 minutes... In my setup (see above), or, in fact, in any setup using a mixer, is it "better" or at least, best practice for some reason, to increase the volume of what you're playing back at source, the mixer channel, main out, or, in...

Thanks Steve I'm using J River as my player, talking to my (current) Creative Xi-Fi SBX 5.1 pro (which supports 96/24) and from there through the Behringer Xenyx Q802USB mixer to my M-Audio AV40 active monitors. Does this get me around the Windows mixer / itunes restrictions?

Thank you cheeseboy - nice and simple answer which at least means I understand how the plumbing works now :-) Thanks too to fr0g - It's not that I'm not open to argument on the sample rate issue - I really don't know myself as I'm new to this game and have never experienced 192Khz (as fas as I...

Hi there, Im hoping someone more experienced with digital music setups can kindly help me out. I’m very new to this so you’ll appreciate that my equipment won’t win any prizes, but I’ve been fairly careful selecting components, within budget of course. I have a set of M-Audio AV40 active...