Quote: Power off. Press and hold all three buttons while turning on the power button at the back.

Looks like the once famous Storm Digital nos dac for me

Quote: Originally Posted by leeperry apparently they're all OEM from this company: JINEUNG ELECOM - UHF-1 USB TranspoDAC , DAC-1 OVERTURE USB , UHF-nano/S , USB audio You are damn right. product > DAC_eng > ìœ*럽íŒë§¤ ëª¨ë¸ DAC-1 Overture

Quote: Originally Posted by leeperry AudioTrak is not owned by ESI anymore, Gyrocom bought it from them a few years back...and this german website is grossly overpriced, besides Dr Dac appears to be phased out. you can get its replacement for much cheaper here, directly from the...

I think you can't go wrong with this. How much is this? You should get 1 and let us know your findings.

Quote: Originally Posted by slim.a I downloaded yesterday the long awaited v1.0 of foobar and below are my findings. For a long time I have preferred the older v0.8.3 to the 0.9.5.x and 0.9.6.x. Those newer 0.9.x version seems to have a flatter soundstage. I experimented many other...

Quote: Originally Posted by chris_ah1 WOW - those are some killer specs. and it supports both voltages. shame about no direct USB. PLEASE can some get this and the MD-10 pwease!!!! Specs and measurements doesn't mean too much and sound quality can be subjective. So I...

The Sound Agent 2 driver that the Aurilium is using has a check box to enable DTS passthrough. So I assume that is bit-perfect...

Try copy your whole foobar2000 directory into your linux $HOME/.wine/drive_c and run it with wine. If it plays fine, then it must be because of the flac or audio plugin for xine/amarok. If you rip the SACD to flac, then you must be ripping the CDDA layer which will result to PCM wave...

Their marketing team must have live in the matrix. They need to be unplugged.

That can't confirm bit-perfectness. It just ASIO gives direct access to the hardware and while playing music on ASIO, your windows application can't access the hardware and therefore no 2 toned sound.

The USB converter is really tiny. Is it battery powered? You said you have no headphones. Do you have speakers?

Another vote for Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 series. Meets heboil's requirement perfectly.

Quote: Originally Posted by edb is it true that an ASIO device can only be accessed by one application at a time? so when I play music through an ASIO device, sound from other applications won't be heard? Thanks. That's true.

Quote: Originally Posted by maarek99 Oh come on, of course I'm talking about digital. Ever heard of spdif passthrough? Live/Audigy cards support it and using it you can get dts or dd signal to your receiver. This is very simple stuff and it's been used for years. You've never heard...