m-i-c-k-e-y said:

As with other DACs or DAC/Amp combos, its a hit and miss with Android since it is not officiality supported.

One may work and for the other won't.

Have a GO 1000 and its works with Galaxy Note 3, Tab S 8.4 LTE and Note 10.1 (ed. 2014) Tablet. All in Android 4.4.2

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samsung stuff sometimes works.........
 
the question is, when is android officially supported by the geek out?  is android L going to work?
what is LH doing to make this work with android?

Question is when will Android will fully support USB Audio...

android doesn't support usb otg in aosp I think.  some manufacturers add support for it, and many custom kernels have added it.  so if you have an android phone that supports it, you can use the geek as long as you have external power for it via a y cable etc.. I believe that's how it works.  the geek is not really a portable dac/amp it's a usb powered dongle meant to be used with pcs really..   the geek stream is light harmonics portable dac/amp

Wow! What a case. We only use Pelican case for Da Vinci, now you have one nice version for Geek Out SE.... This is cool.
 
Larry
 
 
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axelcloris said:

  After a long period of anticipation the Geek Out Signature Edition has arrived. Here's a couple of quick and dirty photos before I immerse myself in music for the next few hours. Tomorrow is probably going to suck at work since I might get caught up in the music tonight.
 

Gold Geek Out SE
 

LH Labs signatures
 

Pelican case to protect the SE during travel

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m-i-c-k-e-y said:

Question is when will Android will fully support USB Audio...

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Android "L" Feature Spotlight: Android Now Natively Supports USB Audio-Out

 
USB audio-out support is coming to our favorite mobile OS, finally, in this fall's "L" release. Android has been without native USB audio support (some OEMs have added it in, but at the moment it's rare) since, well, ever, and the main ticket in the Android issue tracker has been there nearly two-and-a-half years. How do we know the feature is coming? Because that ticket just got closed. And it showed up in the giant "L" of new Android features at I/O, too

Hi Uncola/James!

Was ecstatic at first when they annouced it on Android L (sometime early July). But sorry to inform you that the USB Audio support in Android L is not complete. Or at least on their preview. They annouced to everybody that it would, and later on an email on the developer request page, they say they jumped the gun to early and was sorry.

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Comment #1345 on issue 24614 dated July 21, 2014 by Glenn Kasten, project member: Add support for USB Audio
Link: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24614

Sorry for any confusion, but in our exuberance about USB audio, we flipped the status to Released a bit early. It is true that L developer preview includes some USB audio support, but it is not quite complete in L developer preview. Please bear in mind that there are myriads of use cases and devices out there. And while we may not support all of this initially, we will do our best to support as many as we can at L launch, and work to bring this support to the entire ecosystem as fast as we can. We're continuing to work on it, so I'm changing status to Assigned. Thanks in advance for your patience!

Is it plated with real gold?

Oh that sucks.  But it seems like they're saying it will support it when L is out, right now it's just a developer preview.. I think they are going to release L later this month when the nexus 6 and 8 get announced

Android compatibility really has more to do with the device and the Thesycon drivers from Germany.

cat6man said:

yes, i did but no joy

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Nexus tablets do not appear to pass the audio signal through the USB. My Nexus 10 does not work either.

I have just come into possession of a relatively new Geek Out 720 with the 1.5 firmware. I will be using it with Apple computers exclusively. I have read many pages of this thread and the Geek 1000 Impression thread - and it has been tough wading through the pages of posts about trouble tickets, noise floor issues, volume spikes, hate toward the 3D Awsomaccallit and other fully justifiable rants - but it has been a bit tough finding bits of information that confirm/refute what I am finding in the first 24 hours of playing with my little dongle (sorry)
 
So I am going to ask a few questions and make a few assumptions and hopefully get some responses - thanks in advance guys (and gals) - I have found that I like the sound coming through my headphones - a lot - my Shure SE846 likes to be driven with this thing - I haven't gone through all my headphones - but there is a queue forming on my desk.
 
**I also bought the "GeekPerfect" music player for the hell of it, but have reverted back to iTunes so I could play with the EQ a bit - I don't see any EQ or tone controls with this player.
 
The buttons on the side do nothing now other than switch between two different digital filters (T/F?)
 
Since I have a Mac, I have gone into "Audio MIDI Setup" and maxed out the volume there.
 
I have maxed out the volume on iTunes and only adjust the volume with the up/down/mute buttons on my keyboard (I tried it another way - maxing out the volume on the MIDI control and the keyboard buttons and adjusted volume on iTunes - it seems to sound better that way, but I could be wrong - there seems to me more room to adjust volume from quiet to loud on the computer volume controls as opposed to iTunes volume controls - with iTunes volume, it gets really loud before you are 20% off -0db.
 
If I want to see if my unit is one with an abnormal noise floor, would it be obvious by simply pausing my music - some of what I listen to was recorded in the 60's and 70's so they come with a level of hiss as standard equipment - when I have noticed hiss, I have paused the music and moved the volume up and down - and it has been quiet - so I think I have a good one.
 
...oh, hell - what else do I need to know?
 
I bought this because I wanted a powerful amp & DAC with a low output impedance that would allow my many low impedance IEMs and CIEMs to reproduce all frequencies without any odd roll offs (talking to you 846 & Merlin) and I really like the Sabre DAC chip - I have to tell you that my 8A's sound freakin awesome with this little person - all of the best attributes of that CIEM are there but sound punched up and clearer - really pleased with the sound....
 
Whew...  yeah, so I like this thing - I like the sound - I just need to play around with it a bit more...

audio addict said:

Nexus tablets do not appear to pass the audio signal through the USB. My Nexus 10 does not work either.

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With the wonderful UAPP app, my nexus tablet does indeed pass USB audio to my meridian explorer DAC.

Why the geek doesn't work as well, I don't know.
Uapp works fine with many many dacs and the app developer is very responsive.

Even with the go100 I get a small amount of hiss with my 13's it doesn't get louder the higher the volume goes and you can't tell it is there while the music is playing unless it is completely silent. It is there howeve none the less. But the sound is as you said exceptional.

cat6man said:

With the wonderful UAPP app, my nexus tablet does indeed pass USB audio to my meridian explorer DAC.

Why the geek doesn't work as well, I don't know.
Uapp works fine with many many dacs and the app developer is very responsive.

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Thanks.  I was not aware of that. 

Unfortunately my Nexus 7 with UAPP is not working with my geek.....