Quote: Icon Audio HP8 MKII, Signature edition version, wonderful pair with LCD-2   http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/icon-audio-hp8-mk2-tube-headphone-amplifier

OK! no problem, your question was useful to remind me I am still pending to test the hiface2 with asio

surely native ASIO is better than ASIO4ALL which is the solution for devices which have not native ASIO.   For the rest, there are a lot of oppinions, and I guess maybe depends on the device too.   The best is own testing, actually is quite easy, is just downloading 3 components (for...

The hiface2 drivers are provided by M2Tech, and it's possible also to bypass the mixer with KS (kernel streaming) and Wasapi in Windows with corresponding foobar components.   I haven't tested yet as for bitperfect I use KS, but the difference with previous hiface,  is that hiface2 also...

Quote: From my experience when I had the D100 (MKI) , is not just a question of power, is due to the treble, it was too harsh. I listened some heaphones that most of them made good pair with D100 (specially Denons), but in the case of the Sennheiser it didn't exist any sinergy at all...

thanks tim, I knew just kidding, but maybe I will follow your advice and upgrading it

Quote:  5.2 already discontinued and a new version is on the market? I am starting to be stressed 

I set it as minimum latency / 512 samples and I am very happy with the performance. PC is a W7 64 bits with 4Gb, the computer even is a quad core is a little bit older, the only changes I did in the OS is disabling aero and all energy-saving options. Player is foobar and also from RAM (with file...

Yes chodi you are right, is a driver update. I noticed too a slight improvement in terms of transparency   cheers

BTW, M2Tech has released an update of  Hiface2 ' firmware early this week

Quote:    thanks HeatFan, I am becoming a big fan of A-GD too,  and I hope it takes you less than 6 months next time!!!

Mine has arrived!!!    Out of the box I paired with Auralic Taurus amp (not mine, unfortunately) and the result is fantastic, I could I stay with this rig for a looong time. Although I cannot compare with my DAC19 as I am using it with other amp and balanced outputs, sound feature is quite...

thanks a lot .Sup!

btw .Sup, I 've seen you pair your ref5 with an spl auditor, do they pair well?  in my case will be a phonitor and senn hd800 too...

Quote: That's it, I got mine from Audio gd (V5) early this year, I can't be more pleased with it, but I went for 5.2 as I 've got recently a balanced amp.