first, welcome aboard and thank you for your review.
To some of your questions:
> a) Under Win XP, is Silverjuke married only to
> only Kmixer
Currently, yes.
> [...] and if so, will the end result be
> MP3's will be transcoded to 48K with no
> recourse?
We try to open kmixer/the audio drivers with the frequency selectable at "Settings / Playback settings / Samplerate".
If needed, resampling can be done by the "hardware" (I think this will be the OS's kmixer then) or by "software" (normally, Silverjuke then). Try the "Use hardware" switch at "Settings / Playback settings".
> b) If Silverjuke can indeed output 44.1>44.1K
> via Kmixer, will volume/tone settings invoke
> 44.1K>48K transcoding? I fear that enabling
> Silverjuke's EQ (or any Win App EQ) will trigger
> Kmixer to default to 48K.
All "FX" settings are completely Silverjuke-internal and do not affect the samplerate. If you use eg. the equalizer, this has nothing to do with kmixer.
> Also I fear that setting Silverjuke (or Windows Volume Control) to
> anything less than maximum may truncate 16 bit
> reproduction and degrade audio.
We have an option for this, see "Audio output: use system volume" at "Settings / Advanced / Further options".
By default, this switch is set to "Yes", depending on the audio driver, Silverjuke changes the device's volume directly which should not affect the bit resolution in the best case.
If you set this switch to other values, to "No" or to "Init only", this will result in lower bit resolutions - with the advantage that you can easier share the audio output with other programs.
> c) Can Silverjuke select any other path other than
> Kmixer, such as Kernel Streaming? [...]
Currently, our programmers re-check ASIO - there is nothing more we can tell you at the moment ...
Best regards,
Your Silverjuke TeamStatistics: Posted by Service-Team — 12. Feb 08, 10:52
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