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Re: To ASIO or not to ASIO,that is the question?

I believe the discussion you might be referencing was about lossless audio which is more straightforward. It is actually very easy to prove that a lossless audio component is lossless (or not). Once this is proven, you can rely on the lossless component to send the same bit stream to the playback process as an uncompressed file. Hence, lossless is lossless.

It is more difficult to determine how audio data is handled internally by playback software without the source code, and there is more room for error since the software can be more complex (especially if it offers advanced DSP functions, replay gain, etc.).

If the source code is not available, if you had a way to capture the output signal and compare it to the input you could determine if playback through the software was bit perfect using file compares.

'Math is Math' for both playback software and lossless compression. It is just that one easier to prove that it working properly vs. the other.

Lynn

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