Hello there, I'm new to the forums, so Hi.

I have some questions about MAD/ASIO for Winamp.

I'm running ASIO Output plug-in pexe version] v0.42 SSE

I'm running MAD plug-in 0.14.2b for Input

Winamp 5.02/Windows XP SP1/DirectX9.0b/Soundblaster Audigy Original (gamer) softmod'd to Audigy 2 with latest drivers.. CMSS 2 enabled, Heavy Metal Advanced EQ selection, 52% Bass, 63% Treble, Klipsch Promedia 5.1.

MAD set to 32bit..

ASIO set to resampling, 48khz, 63 buffer, Creative ASIO, Realtime Priorities.



Yeah, so.

My questions are, Is there any better sounding plugins or whatnot that I can get for my computer?

MAD/ASIO work great, but I'm not sure if theres better out there, they also slow my Athlon 1600xp down quite a bit....

I'm also wondering the differences between mad/asio and kernel streaming technology,.

and also what some of the options in ASIO panel do.. For example, Gapless mode, Convert 1 channel to 2 channel, shit output channels and Direct input monitor.

As a last question, Is there any overall audio settings that I should change with my current setup?

Thanks for the time to help me everyone who does

*waves*

in_mpg123 would be good alternative to mad. it supprts 32 bit, replagain and a hardlimiter (and uses the same base library as foobar2000). it supports the extended fileinfo for the winamp 5 library (which IIRC mad does not). The drawback is that it relies on an installed mp3infp for tagging your files (APE, IDv1, IDv2).

Some listening test performed by guruboolez under extreme conditions indicated, that in_mpg123 could be better than in_mad (because of its similarity to foobar feature- and librabrywise).

the old out_ds SSRC plugin by Peter Pawlowski could be a working alternative for the (otachan?) out_asio. Just test it out.

The most processor power ist used by using software resampling. You have to question yourself if this needed indeed (as the Audigy will resample anyway, regardless if you feed it with 44kHz or 48kHz).