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I know bits and pieces of this question have been discussed on other threads, but I'm still a little stuck here as to how best to set up this DAC with Windows 10.
When I got this DAC, I installed the RME driver package and there has never been any problem with getting the device to play music.
However, I'm confused about how to set it up optimally. If I understand the manual correctly, the user must choose the sampling rate through the RME driver software, and the PC then sends all audio to the DAC at the selected sample rate, regardless of the original sample rate of the audio file being played.
This seems weird, but is it correct? If I just want the DAC to receive all audio at the original sample rate - is there anything I can do to make it do this?
And if this is not possible, could there be anything wrong with the PC upsampling everything to say 88.2KHz (which is the normal sample rate I use when producing music in Ableton Live).
Finally, the windows volume control in the taskbar still affects the volume of the audio going to the DAC. I've been leaving it on 100% and using the DAC's inbuilt volume ofc, but does the fact that the Windows system volume still works indicate that the data being sent to the DAC is not bit-perfect?
Help much appreciated
Andreas
When I got this DAC, I installed the RME driver package and there has never been any problem with getting the device to play music.
However, I'm confused about how to set it up optimally. If I understand the manual correctly, the user must choose the sampling rate through the RME driver software, and the PC then sends all audio to the DAC at the selected sample rate, regardless of the original sample rate of the audio file being played.
This seems weird, but is it correct? If I just want the DAC to receive all audio at the original sample rate - is there anything I can do to make it do this?
And if this is not possible, could there be anything wrong with the PC upsampling everything to say 88.2KHz (which is the normal sample rate I use when producing music in Ableton Live).
Finally, the windows volume control in the taskbar still affects the volume of the audio going to the DAC. I've been leaving it on 100% and using the DAC's inbuilt volume ofc, but does the fact that the Windows system volume still works indicate that the data being sent to the DAC is not bit-perfect?
Help much appreciated
Andreas