if I am allowed to say something about your choise to go with the specific kind of usb connection, I would say, that you if we see the charts above in the debate here, most users will use micro dsd mainly for desktop use...Desktop (75%) & Portable 25%)   I believe that most people (vast...

finally, ready to "hit" the market...   good job iFi...   I wish it a succesfull "route" in the market 

  I see your point...   thanks

DSP in generall, is a "forbidden" word?   I mean, if we use our dacs mainly to drive speakers and not headphones, what we usually "hear" is not the dac, not the speaker, but the "room" in which they play... If we dont fix our room first, what is the meaning to have a super preamp/dac/speaker...

  roamling, If I understood correct, we must do as you said...sad...cause I recently bought the iusb to go with my nano, and I could instead have waited to give the money to micro...   now, if I go on and buy the micro, I will end up with an extra device (iusb), that probably don;t need...not...

same question here...   the iusb then is too much to use in combination with the micro?...will the micro benefits more with or without the iusb?...or it doesnt make any difference at all, because of the "power features" already build in micro?

      another fact I see...   no matter where in the whole planet, all soundlovers, share the same questions and/or "madness" huh?   piece!!!

  probably your post, answers my question, in my previous post...

  I see lot of us are wondering how much better is the micro vs nano, only as dac and/or preamplifier...   we consider all the other extra features as a bonus/plus added, but mainly we want to see how the micro behaves as a standalone dac, that will drive either high-quality headphones, or...

maybe I will download jriver, just to see the differences in setup...whether its easier than foobar, to setup the player correctly...   I never did any comparisons between palyers, but from I am reading, maybe there are lot of differences, that affect the outcome...   we will see...

ok...thank you for the reply

I will try it Turrican2, to see if anything happens...   analogsurviver, you mean that maybe dac is having an internal "bottleneck" or it "stucks"?... it does this to you when playing under "foo_dsd_asio", or with "asio iFi"?..and as you say, this happens to you also, only when playing dsd...

I have a question for you people...   I have the latest version of foobar and made all the upgrades in the drivers of nano dsd (firmware 4.02-windrivers 2.20) I run a win7 64bit pc with 8gb ram...   now, I choose from the fbar> preferences > output devices > "foo_dsd_asio"... then Asio >...

jexby, thank you very much...   copy paste the list to my pc right now...

maybe someone here has already talked about it...   but, what are the different colors that nano dsd must show at the top, everytime it plays each format? (pcm from 96 to 192 and dsd 64-256 etc)   I couldnt find it...I ve made all the latest upgrades in drivers (2.20) and firmware (4.02)  ...