Received mine very recently. It's a perfert match with my audiophilleo and squeezebox touch (USB Output and SuperTeddyReg).   Clearly more musical than my previous Buffalo from TwistedPear Audio or AudioGD DAC19   Take the best of them all and you have the D18   Thanks all of you...

Hi there,   A french blogger put some nice pictures on the web where you can clearly see the XMOS chip   http://musiq-audiophile.blogspot.fr/2012/04/m2tech-hiface-rev-20.html    

Quote:   AFAIK Alix are only fanless/lower consumption computers with no screen/keyboard. Then you need to handle the USB signal

Quote: XMOS chip will guarantee that you are fully USB 2.0 Audio compliant, hence for Linux users is a no brainer  

Hi Both,    A friend of mine just confirmed (from a reliable source) it is a XMOS chip

lsusb -v on the card you want :   Bus 001 Device 006: ID 249c:930b   Device Descriptor:   bLength                18   bDescriptorType         1   bcdUSB               2.00   bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device   bDeviceSubClass         2 ?   bDeviceProtocol         1...

Quote: cat/proc/asound/card1/stream0 :   M2Tech M2Tech USB Audio 2.0 at usb-0000:00:1a.7-3, high speed : USB Audio Playback:   Status: Running     Interface = 1     Altset = 1     URBs = 8 [ 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ]     Packet Size = 1024     Momentary freq = 44100 Hz (0x5.8330)    ...

Look at this post 03/27/2012 @11.19 http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/M2TECH-HiFace-2   Pretty sure JKeny will work on the new version as the bulk one seems to sound a lot better

Quote: Understood the new hiface is based on the same XMOS chip (not 100% sure)  

Quote: Hey,    Are we sure the Audiophilleo will sound better ? AFAIK Stello U3 and Audiophilleo play in the same league, and Hiface Two has pretty much the same hardware than the Stello. so ?   Cheers