I hope you are not serious Bob.I might try some footers under my laptop, like hockey pucks? ...To absorb the distortion.
I hope you are not serious Bob.I might try some footers under my laptop, like hockey pucks? ...To absorb the distortion.
Was a gorgeous day here too. Nice breeze, 100% clean and blue skies and crisp temps.I feel real good today, every day, the sun is shining and the autumn leaves are splendidly colorful.
In that case unfortunately there is no way to bypass Windows audio processing. You would need a different player like Roon, Foobar2000, etc. to access WASAPI/ASIO.
I hope you are not serious Bob.
Was a gorgeous day here too. Nice breeze, 100% clean and blue skies and crisp temps.
iTunes which has the same issues.What audio media player comes with Apple?
I believe you also have to set Allow Exclusive Mode in the Sound CP in Windows.
Thanks for that. As I mentioned I will post some measurements later. For now, this is the key statement:
Why are we not told by Windows to not use their digital volume control?
Why are they not doing it right in the first place, or correct the issue?
I always have problems with sound quality from various Windows versions.
I lost precious time in trying to find out the reason why.
Today I still don't use the Windows 10 volume control; it sounds so bad that I'm having nightmares in the comfort of my sleep @ night.
By the way, I lost the Audio "Enhancement" feature a long time ago.
I found Windows very mediocre on both the audio and video aspects.
Many times when I open my laptop the camera is gone!
The audio is highly distorted, ...and many other issues.
Computers are not my field of expertise.
Simplicity of life is. I'm just about to switch on the other side of the wall, the brighter side...the Apple side.
WASAPI/ASIO...first time ever in my life I'm just reading it.
Why isn't it not mentioned in Windows audio troubleshooting, on the wide Web world, on the Internet highway of global communication?
The Windows volume control (and other Windows audio processing) would not be responsible for the problems that you describe. Bypassing it with WASAPI or ASIO makes a small difference.
If you describe your system thoroughly, we might be able to help you solve your problems.
You have not provided much information about how you play music. What steps do you take to play a music file? Once you have started playing a music file, what do you see on the screen? Do you see a window that appeared when you started playing music? Do you see the name of a program on the title bar of that window?
You said "And the speaker driver is from Realtek." That is probably the software for the motherboard audio output that is part of your computer. Whether or not it is being used depends on how your computer sends audio to the headphones or amp+speakers that produce sound. It would help to know how your computer is connected to the rest of your system. (3.5mm cable, USB cable to a DAC, a toslink (SPDIF) optical cable) or some other kind of connection. If you are plugging a audio cable into an amplifier, what kind of input to the amp are you using? (line level or a low level input intended for input from a turntable).
That seems the key question for the OP. I'm sure it's not as good as Roon's, but is it bad like the resampler, about as good as you can do in 24 bits, or somewhere in between.I wonder if Windows Volume control is “bad”.
Yes is converts to float, dithers and back to integer but if we talk 24 bit audio I wonder if there is an audible difference assuming no resampling.
In something that claims to have a 'creators edition' you would hope it has been addressed, but I doubt it.Alas, my team was disbanded 10+ years ago so there is no group or senior management focused on audio fidelity. So not surprising but sad that this was not revisited years ago as CPUs got faster and a better resampler could have been put in there.
I am actually shocked about the whole focus on "creativity" just the same for visuals. Alas, there is next to nothing in the OS to indicate they have done anything significant there either.In something that claims to have a 'creators edition' you would hope it has been addressed, but I doubt it.
How can you mess that up?
It is actually done in floating point in Windows. Back to integer it goes through dither which adds some noise. It should be pretty good but I still like to test it.Digital volume reduction is what?
A fractional multiplication of each sample, with rounding error?
Internally, I suspect most modern devices operate at a 24bit (or higher) level, so the rounding error is miniscule.
How can you mess that up?