Ok. Couldnt get it to work in win 10, but bought a usb 32 kit from audio-gd and it was plug and play, and easy and cheap replacement for the te 8802. Excellent support from Kingwa and team.

Did anyone get the te8802 to work under windows 10? asynch or not asynch, doesnt matter. I cant get my win 10 to recognise the device.

Looks like the right ones to me but better ask kingwa at audio gd. As for the variable output a fixed one can potentially damage your speakers because output is at max. I think thats the reason. Its a safety precortion.

Audio gd once sold a te8802 usb board. As upgrade for te7702 or something as i recall. To get asynch transfer. Thats what their usb32 module in the new dac 19 does. Its a diy project with some soldering. I had an xo on that. And for power supply i used a small audio gd psu a kit; a small class...

I have a dac 19 dsp with te8802 psu A usb module connected to pre 2.2 and its a freaking good sounding solution imo. And i have had far far more expensive dacs before. Get this stuff before its out of stock. Its a bargain. Its small and nimble to. I like the engineering timeless design too. I...

Update on my initial impressions The moment Hifiman said they would send new HP I new it could potentially be a difficult situation. There is driver differences, and even the same HP/speaker can sound different. I kept the preorder model because of sound - and even tried it on one of the kids...

Sa-31 is different from acss beeing less neutral. The same goes for the wolfson. But ofcource its a matter of personal preference. 9018 gives more details with more fatigue. Pick your choice. My experience with 560 is go for the ess variant.

  My assessment is you will be fine with the Compass 2 2014 model with 9018, relax :)

I think you made the right choise as i know the q701 on aud7o gd 11 and the 15 version. The ess is far more detailed but you get faster fatigue. Btw if you at some time upgrade to the compass ess version i think the akg will benefit from it. That my experience from this hp and audio gd gear...

In many ways it just is Identical. Try to google the "bpm 7110". I can guarantee that no license is beeing paid here :). And he then adds excellent Vishay resistors to the mix so its probably a better solution. No eu or us company could do that because its illegal. (and damn expensive for the...

It was a joke :)   ....a little bit

I actually also thought it was nice of Kingwa to show where he copied it from, now he actually had copied it :)   Regarding copying the cabiniet its actually far more complicated, because it demands production competences that is relatively rare in China. You need to have excellent tool...

Current transmision methology is old tech, but Kingwa have outright copied the best solutions in the world - even down to the model number, and tuned it. Combined it with the absolutely best components, and sold it for less than 10% what a us/eu brand would have to charge for it. 10% is on the...

I understand what you both hear and yes i also think it can be attributed to the 170x, but you interprete it wrong imho. The roundness vs dryness is more correct vs real live non amplified sources imho. I think its a general ladder vs streaming technology characteristics. 1 bit dacs never have...

+1 for darker/neutral version :)