Musiland Monitor 01 USD 24/192 USB to SPDIF - Page 8

With 9 posts all of which are about Musicland I would say it's a pretty good guess.
jtam, while you are still there, can you please elaborate on async implementation.

I decided to sell the Bel Canto USBLink and keep this as I think it performs better technically. Only drawback is the drivers, however Windows 7 is better than vista so unix is still there but... 24/96 is ok. I might keep it for a little while longer but not much.

Could you do more in-depth preview between these two?

Is this with the updated drivers from last month for Vista?

Thanks

Yes but on eBay only.

To my best knowledge, the USD has a pretty precise internal clock and a data buffer. When receiving data from the computer via USB, the MU1010/6010 chip sets feedback the master clock back to PC to control the speed of the data stream. They claimed that the algorithm they used is good at controlling jitters.

alright Patu Ill compare them side by side tonight and post tomorrow. More detailed breakdown of what I hear.

Do you know if Vista's WASAPI exclusive mode will work with this card? I believe WASAPI is Vista's native implementation of KS.

Do it
My M-Audio Transit sucks with Vista. I'm looking for other options, this one and the PopPulse are great choices now.

I have not seen any reports (yet) about this running on linux.

any plans? can you (ebay guy) ask the manuf if they plan to have linux support for this?

Asked, no hope for Linux.

They plan to make a very similar model for Mac though. Good news?

I imagine it should work, KS and WASAPI are pretty similar. KS does work under Vista, although poorly, but it is considered the better choice for USB devices according to Foobar2000's wiki. That said, I'm using WASAPI with my USB X-Fi sound card and it works great. Just had to set the output buffer as low as it goes in Foobar. Don't know if you use F2k or not though so that might not have been very helpful. Here's some general info: ASIO is more selective about the devices it works with; there generally need to be specific ASIO drivers for a device in order to get it working (with the possible exception of ASIO4ALL). WASAPI will work with any audio device with a Vista driver. The end result of either method is pretty well the same. Not sure about bit-perfect output via WASAPI, though I know it can be done in ASIO. I don't care much about it myself, I just like to block out all the other sounds on my computer by using WASAPI. There's a link to a guide to setting up WASAPI and/or ASIO with F2k in my signature if you're interested (as well as instructions for ripping CDs to FLAC using EAC).

not for me; mac is not linux.

I have a fanless pc that runs linux and mpd (music play daemon). my config works well with standard usb audio devices (from a very old xitel usb/opto box from 2000 timeframe up thru the BB pcm chips and cmedia chips).

but I'm NOT willing to dump my:
- os
- apps
- config

because the company is too 'proud' to tell us how their code or architecture works. they won't play ball with the open source guys, I want no part of their products.

sorry.

go tell them they lose a LOT of sales because, more and more, media players are going linux as the back-end.

and this hiding game that vendors play; reminds me of those that rub off the chip names before they ship the board. I can't support companies that do stuff like that.

thanks for letting us know. it would have been a shame to order one, TRY to get unix working with it only to find out the vendor doesn't ever want it to work with unix.

I agree with Linuxworks - it really needs to support Linux for true audiophile use which is what it is purported to address.

Here's an announcement from Musiland (translated) which talks about the Functional units & their workings, Includes USB 2.0 support, using Xilnx FPGA gives 24bit/768KHz, clock management unit for low jitter clock 1PPM(?) plus it mentions future functions (through software) of multichannel support, DTS, audio effects,etc

Sorry for the long quote but I thought all of it interesting

Further research has unearthed a review (in Chinese & in 3 parts) & pics of the Monitor 01 US (same as USD but with PCM1973 DAC). Pics of board (in Part 2 ) show, what to me looks like a reasonably well designed & implemented board but it also mentions that I2S is used to send audio to the DAC. So I2S should be recoverable from the unit (I know I2S signal has to be short to avoid clock corruption). The PCM1793 is the weak part of this unit, I feel

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