Steve, did manage to get DirectX to work in J River Media Center. J River's got terrific sound even via DirectOutput ... much better than Winamp in my system, and, on a par with Foobar via ASIO wi SRC.
Three questions.
I'm having trouble in J River getting 24/96 via ASIO to work. Player indicates it's working, but, Turbo 2 won't recognize it. If I reset J River to 16 (or 24) and 44.1, and reset the MAudio to 44.1, all works fine.
Is there (1) a more current M Audio driver I might try, and, (2) any easy way to "check" whether J River is indeed sending 24/96 to the Transit? Other users of J River and MAudio indicate they get good results with 24/96 and ASIO, so suspect it's something in my system.
(3) Do you know if the "DirectOutput" option does all the goofy down/re sampling stuff in Kmixer, etc., in a new XP system? Put differently, what's the "processing path difference" between an ASIO output and a "DirectOutput"?
Thanks.
btw -- Turbo 2 is an amazing product. I'm not going back to my egregiously expensive transport.
EDIT: Got J River to work fine using new build version 12 rather than old version 11. Media Center 12 has great sound via 24/96 ASIO