Windows 10 does add a very useful feature - multiple desktops - which I use regularly now on my main workstation. Maybe the situation will be similar to "OS X" in the Mac world where that moniker has stuck since 2001.
Not only is this the "latest and greatest" Windows, there is the potential that this is "the last" Windows version for the foreseeable future.
As usual, despite the testimony from various places about how Windows 10 has improved sound, I believe we have yet to see any evidence that sonic output of a decent modern asynchronous USB DAC using a bitperfect driver like ASIO or WASAPI has changed with an OS upgrade (or the use of OS optimizations).įirst, let's talk about Windows 10. But seriously, what audiophile interested in high fidelity output with dollars invested in good digital source/pre-amp/amp/speakers/headphones would be listening to motherboard audio or DirectSound with Windows audio? Not many I bet. I guess it's quite possible since process scheduling, mixing and dithering algorithms could change. Windows Mixer) or the motherboard headphone jack? Sure. Yet, I get questions still about uncertainty as to whether different OSes make a difference and then there are programs out there like Fidelizer (check out this review, or this one) and even the well popularized Audiophile Optimizer (through reviews like this one) claiming improvements strangely none of those reviews bothered to tell us exactly what DAC was used!Ĭould the OS and "optimizer" programs like these affect the output through the OS audio stack (eg. The results are not surprising really, as a computer audiophile in 2015, it's quite likely that one would be using a high-quality USB DAC which is asynchronous, thus avoiding issues like the potential for significant jitter due to timing problems in the interface (more below). Already, in the post on the AudioEngine D3 review, I demonstrated that even with disparate computer hardware and operating systems like Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Mac OS X "Mountain Lion", and "Mavericks", I was not able to show measurable differences in noise level, dynamic range, distortion or jitter with this DAC which operates up to 24/96. If you look back at my writings and tests over the last few years, you will see a number of instances where I did measurements using different operating systems, computer hardware, different bitperfect software ( for Windows, for Mac, "audiophile" JPLAY), and looked at things like computer CPU loads and jitter.
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