I may have seen this issue posted here before, but I'm getting very poor sounding audio output on a 5s 16=bit 44.1k WAV file, just using the simplest readsf~ config.

The WAV sound file sounds very high quality played in a DAW. Ideas?

@n6 Could you post a zipped fle including your patch and you soundfile?

@n6 If there seems nothing wrong with your patch then look at the "media"...."audio settings" for Pd. You might have the "delay" set too small. For an internal soundcard it should probably be set to at least 30.
David.

OK, thank you for the responses, once I confirmed I had 100ms delay on my soundcard and that did not help, I went over all the abstractions/subpatches with a fine tooth comb.

It turned out in the process of converting one piece to an abstraction, I left a dac~ wired to osc~ with a zero value multiplication math operation feeding into the osc~. Deleted and fixed!

I need to write a script to grep my abstractions for any loose dac~ (s) to prevent future frustrations and embarrasment!

@n6 If that's the problem, consider using throw~ and catch~ and leaving only one dac~ for the final conversion stage