Yeah V. i am using them with XP Pro with no problems whatsoever.

Are there any changes/improvements from the v5.4 drivers?

If I remember correctly, you have to follow some specific steps to update the DMX drivers, too? 

Thanks.

Cool, thanks for that!  

I used to own a DMX 6Fire 24/96 and tried to use it back when the beta Vista drivers first came out.  It didn't work that well for me so I scrapped the audio interface for a Lynx.

I did move it into my other PC which also ran Vista and I received a lot of pops and clicks even listening to mp3 files through Media Player.  I eventually just got rid of it and used the on-board soundcard in that PC because it worked significantly better in Vista.

Tom

RE: Windows 7 and Terratec DMX 6 Fire 24/96

I've been very happy with my DMX on XP and shifting to W7 was a leap of faith. My PC is fairly old (Intel 875 PBZ mobo, P4 Northwood 3.4) and contains all my music library on 2 HDD's, so I took the plunge with a fair amount of anxiety.

I can confirm that the Vista driver v5.53.3.144 from http://ftp.terratec.de/Audio/DMX6fire2496/Update/ works on W7.
I'm not using Windows Media Player on W7 but MediaMonkey v3.2, with the Asio output dll v0.67 SSE2. On the control panel of the DMX6 24/96, Asio/Gsif is activated in 24 bit (standard buffer). Other settings: Digital Out= Mix, Buffer 10 msec.

Sound settings in W7: after a lot of struggle (clicks, pops, cuts, white noise, more micro clicks, no sound, etc) the settings below work fine for me (although some fine-tuning is likely to further enhance the sound):

(1) Playback Devices in W7
a) Speakers>DMX6 Fire 24/96= Default Device
Properties>Advanced>Default Shared Mode= 24 bit-48K
Exclusive Mode: 'Allow Applications...' & 'Give Exclusive...' are on.
b) Spdif Interface>Properties> Supported Formats= All boxes checked. Default Shared Mode= 2ch, 16bit-44.1

(2) Recording Devices
Spdif Interface= DMX 6Fire 24/96= Default Device

Just testing with my PC 2.1 speakers (Altec FX 6021) the overall sound quality is clearly above XP: expanded soundfield, space & depth, details, warmer nuances. Using the DMX front panel Spdif output to an external DAC for listening to the main audio system brings a even fuller envelope. The DMX6 still offers a more than decent performance on W7 and is a good choice on a secondary PC so I won't discard it.

Jean Francois,

Thanks for your report.

Have you tried using the front panel rca inputs and outputs for recording and playback with these drivers in Win7?

I'd like to continue using my DMX 6Fire with Win7 too.

Hello Vicsant,

My post yesterday was claiming victory too soon. All was fine as described. But this morning, I had cuts in the sound using the Spdif ouput (sound on PC speakers was fine) so I uninstalled the Vista DMX driver. And now, I am unable to re-install it, it won't be recognized in the Devide Manager. Quite agonizing, and all the more frustrating given the brief taste of heaven I experienced yesterday and now ending up with nothing! I guess I will have to reinstall Seven from a clean slate.

Jean Francois


Hello Vicsant,

My post yesterday was claiming victory too soon. All was fine as described. But this morning, I had cuts in the sound using the Spdif ouput (sound on PC speakers was fine) so I uninstalled the Vista DMX driver. And now, I am unable to re-install it, it won't be recognized in the Devide Manager. Quite agonizing, and all the more frustrating given the brief taste of heaven I experienced yesterday and now ending up with nothing! I guess I will have to reinstall Seven from a clean slate.

I hope you get it to work again in Win7. Please keep us posted.
Thanks

Happy to report that all is well again, both on PC speakers & Spdif output. I found the main culprit was actually the Asio output dll in Media Monkey, causing clicks. On XP-SP3, the Asio output was real clean. Go figure. Switching back to the Wave output solved that. Great sound again. Other settings are unchanged.

So there's still a life for the DMX with W7. Finding a replacement in PCI isn't that easy, unless the budget for a Lynx AES is available.

Hi all
 
I'm new here, but I registered to say thanks for helping me sort out my DMX 6fire 24/96 with Windows 7 64 bit... My settings are slightly different so I thought I would help out too if anyone out there is facing the same problem. \
 
I just got an Intel i7 and loaded windows 7 just to give it a try (with Adobe Audition, Korg Triton Extreme with SPDIF linked to my pc  and with the soundcard) and see if I can make it work. It does! Some clicks and pops but I'll try out Jean Francois' advice and see what happens. The system works really fast so if everything goes well, I am not going back to XP!
 
So my settings are :
 
PLAYBACK DEVICES
Speakers DMX 6fire Default device, 24bit, 48000, uncheck both boxes of exclusive mode
SPDIF Interface Disabled
 
RECORDING DEVICES
SPDIF Interface, uncheck listen to this device, playback through speakers DMX 6fire, uncheck both boxes of exclusive mode, default format 2 channel, 16 bit, 48000Hz
 
I hope this helps. I'll keep you posted.
Thanks again!