ASUS Essence III ユーザーガイド

Windows® 7 DSD Setup Guide for foobar2000

Windows® 7 DSD Setup Guide for foobar2000 (Essence III)

Essence III has native support for both DSD64 and DSD128 encoding rates via a native Audio

Stream Input/Output (ASIO) driver, allowing audiophiles to indulge in digital listening at the

highest possible quality levels.

The example below shows how to configure your Windows 7 PC with an Essence III

USB DAC using ASIO for DSD playback through the foobar2000 media player:

1. Install Essence III

Please follow the quick-start guide to install the Essence USB audio 2.0 driver and your

Essence product. Make sure the Essence product is set as the default audio device.

2. Install foobar2000 and setup ASIO mode

Please refer to Windows® 7 ASIO Setup Guide for foobar2000 for more details.

3. DSD playback

setup

Step 1: Download the DSD component

You’ll find the necessary ‘foo_input_sacd’ file at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/files/

Download the file and save it to your PC.

Step 2: Install the DSD component

Return to File>Preferences>Components and click the ‘Install’ button.