#Windows 10 creators update sound mac os x#
#Windows 10 creators update sound drivers#

Again, notice the accuracy of the objective measurements indicating no difference in the frequency domain and very low harmonic and intermodulation distortions. I hear no difference with playback using this driver compared to the OEM TEAC driver with ASIO or using the Raspberry Pi 3 as streamer through my main system. I spent an evening enjoying a few familiar albums - Kind of Blue, High Lonesome Sound, and being a child of the '70/80's - Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol.

Good demonstration of 'bit-perfect' playback. As usual, JRiver does a good job with decoding DST-compressed DSD files. No problem with DoP output of DSD64 and DSD128 to the TEAC DAC. The main difference these days is that I have an ASUS nVidia GTX 1080 strapped in there for 4K gaming. The HTPC with Windows 10 CU installed is essentially my Skylake build from late 2015 with i5-6500 CPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, using the Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 motherboard. HTPC (Windows 10 UAC2 driver) -> 12' USB 2.0 cable -> TEAC UD-501 -> 6' RCA interconnect -> Focusrite Forte ADC -> 6' USB cable -> Windows 10 measurement laptop Remember, as far as I'm concerned, 'bits are bits' so long as we don't have any major timing errors (like buffer underruns) and with an asynchronous interface and a reputable DAC with stable clocking, jitter will typically not be be a problem (as demonstrated many times before).ДЇor the measurements today, I'll just use the TEAC UD-501 DAC installed by Windows 10 in the image above.

#Windows 10 creators update sound drivers#

Very simply, I just wanted to put up some measurements today to demonstrate how well the native drivers work and see if there are any unexpected anomalies. Companies have been releasing their own drivers since the beginning. Of course, this doesn't mean the Windows world has been deprived of high quality sound. Remember, 'UAC2' has been out since 2009 as an evolution of the 'UAC1' standard from 1998.

#Windows 10 creators update sound mac os x#

I updated my home theater PC and when I plugged in my TEAC UD-501 DAC to the USB port (with no TEAC driver installed), Windows detected it and proceeded with the device set-up automatically.Д¬onsidering that Mac OS X and Linux have had 'native' drivers for years, I guess it's about time that Microsoft finally got the job done. Microsoft's USB Audio Class 2 (UAC2) native Windows driver has been released with the recent Windows 10 Creators UpdateВ ('CU', version 1703, build 15063.138).