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Having Trouble Getting Sound to Output Via USB DAC

post #1 of 4
11/25/08 at 8:22am
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So I just bought a NuForce icon. I connected it, as instructed, and it was recognised by the PC no problem.

When I try to play an audio file in Foobar with asio4all, however, nothing. No sound coming through my headphones at all. If I connect them via the front jack on the PC then, all of a sudden, sound!

I think the problem lies with my Realtek HD Audio manager.

Here's what things are looking like in Control Panel:

USB Audio DAC? Great! That's what things should be looking like, right?



In Realtek Audio Manager:

Still showing output via speakers with no option for USB



I tried disabling Realtek HD Audio and doing a restart but that just stopped sound outputting via everything, ordinary jacks and USB DAC.

Suggestions?
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post #2 of 4
11/25/08 at 8:35am
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Ok update, I got sound to output by changing the output device from Asio4All to USB DAC in Foobar.

Is sound now going through the kMixer though?

Since Asio4All is no longer selected?
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post #3 of 4
11/25/08 at 4:40pm
Most likely.

You need to determine if ASIO4all actually works with the Icon unit. I don't have an Icon, but always seemed to have some type of issue with it back when I used windows. I usually got it to work, but it took a lot of finagling. I ended up paying for the the USB-ASIO driver, which worked a lot smoother. Now on the Mac, I don't need any of that, but thats another flame-ridden set of threads.
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post #4 of 4
11/25/08 at 10:24pm
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Fixed.

Just needed some fiddling about with settings in Foobar.
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