Good bye to JRiver? time for foobar2000?

With professional grade sound cards, ASIO drivers used to be the best option for low latency audio, a lot of effort went into the drivers- but with lower-end cards, the drivers often negated this, being either crappy or just a wrapper. I know latency isn't really an issue for playback, but eh.. expensive pro cards often had slightly more reliable drivers, as people expected ASIO to be used for critical stuff.

WSAPI really is an attempt to do more of the right thing in the unloved Windows sound world, so it's certainly worth trying, if you have good drivers and support. It addresses some of the problems that ASIO originally tried to solve, but is more "official". I'd certainly be trying to use it where support worked well, as you will find it probably becomes less hassle moving forward.

 

Thanks for the feedback guys. Wasapi in Foobar is working reliably for me so I can see no obvious reason to switch.

 

I think this might be the last .001% that you guys are chasing.

 

0.0001%

 

0% between Wasapi and Asio.

 

Personally, I wasn't thinking about imaginary quality improvements in the digital domain, just a simpler, cleaner setup with less crap to wrestle.