Which audio player are you using?

[The Baron]

Well... it's an SBLive 5.1. And the MAD page says 24 and 32 bit output is identical. So I think it automagically uses 24.

[Smokey]

The Live cards only support 16bit, even the Audigy1 can only output 16bit. Im hoping to get an Audigy2 early March, then I can test the difference between the 16bit on my Live and the 24bit on the Audigy2. Also as a side note, the new WinDVD Plantinum supports 24bit, you really should try it out for music cds and MP3. Im using headphones, and using headphone SRS, really makes a big difference to me for music, but DVDs really come alive, more so than Dolby Headphone ;)

[The Baron]

I'll get out the Duo and do a real honest-to-God comparison with a decent headphone amp. ;)

[VeritechK7]

Winamp 2.80 w/ MAD Plugin .

[Grechie]

winamp 2.81 only no pluggins lol

[Smokey]

Originally posted by Grechie
winamp 2.81 only no pluggins lol

Try this for size then ;) MAD pluggin for Winamp2 (http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/#install)

[vampireuk]

What is the MAD plugin anyway? :)

Edit: never mind :D

[LTech221]

Winamp 2.81 with Mad plugin, Change between ASIO, DSOUND SSRC & Waveout SSRC outputs.

[budd_wm]

One word: Foobar.

[RacerDuke]

XMPlay

It's free, sounds great, and skinnable. :D

Go here immediately: http://www.un4seen.com

[Xyphus]

Originally posted by budd_wm
One word: Foobar.

I'll second that. :)

Foobar is the shiznit..

[styles-T]

I like foobar as well..Just cant get the kernel streaming to work..Also dont like the fact it doesnt have a slider bar..Good player though..

Now Im using Winamp 2.8 w/ mad..
Was using WMP9 and Wnamp3..

Winamp 2.8 has alot less bloatware the 3..I cant even enque with getting errors on Winamp 3 :surrender

[VoltFox]

what you guys using for output in winamp? DirectSound or WaveOut output? which one is better anyway?

[-=DVS=-]

Winamp 3 all the way , i would use winamp 2.x if it had same skin capabilities :p

They both sound the same anyways :D

[LORD-eX-Bu]

man, using WMP9 here, haven't touched Winamp in years.

[VeritechK7]

I found direct sound to be useless .. at least to me. I tend to like wave out better

[saturnotaku]

I tried out XMPlay and it's a nice program. Only thing I don't like about it is that you can't expand the size of the playlist like you can in Winamp 2.x and 3.x.