What does dithering do? I have an audigy 2 and am using kernel streaming, 24bit fixed-point output, and resampling to 48khz. What does dithering do?

What exactly does crossfeed do?

What does the "buffer length" option in the kernel streaming settings do? What will a bigger or smaller buffer do?

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Some info about dithering:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~dsmitche/rim420/readi...420_Dither.html

If you use 24bit output then dithering is useless. Don't use it then

Buffer length - this is a cache for played music. It prevents skipping etc. Set bigger buffer length if you experience problems with sound skipping. Something around 500ms should be ok in most cases. You have to know that bigger buffer = bigger latency.

Info about crossfeed plugin:
http://www.naivesoftware.com/crossfeed.html