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)  ...

thank you...   I am just kidding about ban...   we will wait...I think its worth it...

all these technical data is very nice and really helps people, to see underneath the "surface" of the new micro idsd...   but...   can you please tell us in plain english,  how much better it will be from his little brother, nano, and the margin of it?....it "destroys" nano?....its a little...

I have thought the solution you said to make a partition on my disk, for adding there only the software I need for audio playback...   the reason I am thinking for a nuc-pc, is because I need to make lot of changes to my desktop-pc in order to make it quitter, and probably, still, won't be...

  thank you for your answer...   EMI problems was the reason of my question...   I am planning later to separate entirely the system by "building" a nuc pc, for audio-only playback... first of of all, its completely quiet and I will add to it, only the operating system (linux or win) and...

photo of my new "components"...nano & iusb     sorry for the quality...taken with my phone...I use them to drive my monitor speakers   want to ask if its a problem to place them so close to my pc...is it going to be an unwanted interference between pc-parts and the dac/iusb? will affect...

xaxaxa...nice   I want to add, that I ve bought today the iusb, to add it to my nano dac....decided to keep it, and give it a shot...we will see   very curious to see the final specifications of the new micro...you guys in iFi, will make us "spies", trying to uncover the new "secret...

  I agree with you...the fact is that from a certain point, in order to achieve small "benefits" in sound, you must pay LOT of money...not to mention that the rest of the setup must be able to reveal the changes we have made in dacs or cables....but...   but, the way I see it,  with modern...

  ok...cost is a factor, but its not much more expensive...in my opinion   the nano (in Europe) is listed in the 200 euro, price range, while the micro, in the 500 euro considering the advantages of the 2 channel chip, the extra features that allows the dac to be way more "flexible" when...

judging from the answers in the poll above, I believe that the new micro,  will cut a large percentage of sales of the the dsd nano...   If you use your dac mainly at your desktop, with active speakers and/or headphones, there is no reason to go for the nano instead...   unless your priority...

Κugino, yeap...you are saying the same thing