...But using ASIO. WASAPI is lower quality - might be enough to obscure the "edge" of the Audirvana.
And please believe us - there is(!) a difference. We are not speaking about it after hearing someone discussing it but the other way around - the last week I was visiting a completely stranger guy to buy a Chord Qutest from him and I saw that he was using Audirvana, asking why... we were stuck with this software from the same reason. We were aware about it from Paul McGowan - but he recommended a few (hifi software), and after testing each one we choose the same.
If I play WASAPI Audirvana it sound like ASIO on every other player: each sound become more compact, loose the power, and his echo / trace in the background (when playing and when finishing) is cut earlier, does not go for such low intensity.
And all this is with all enhancement options off (no dsp and no upsampling) - earlier i thought is upsampling, but nope, they did said they do "autre chose" than upsampling.
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