wasapi & Asio needed for foobar2000 in Windows 10?

[Don Walker]

According to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/3fehls/asio_wasapi_windows10/ there is little need for wasapi & Asio in Windows 10. Additionally, this post: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Bypassing_Windows_Mixer leans that way. I am looking for the best sound and will quite happily use these components and will test them myself. I am using a Cambridge Audio DacMagic XS with 2 different pairs of reasonably good heaphones. So far I thought that the standard Asio foobar2000 component did not sound as good as the native sound stack.

What do other people think?

[Skapan]

I am using the original wasapi driver on event mode. I was having stuttering with this component when I would browse on the internet. I made a few tweaks in the advanced playback settings to make it sound better than this wasap2 comonent.
1,000,000kb full file buffering
Decreased the hardware buffer to 1 ms, or as low as you can go without stuttering
mmcss mode - pro audio, thread priority - 7
Have foobar running on 1 core and on high priority and have other apps using different cores, including web browser.
Disable unecessary services background tasks on windows.

With these minor tweaks, the original wasapi component sound more clear and dynamic on my pc than this new wasap2 asio2 component. I listen on a pair of Sennheiser HD 558's (foam modded) headphones