I have determined so far it has to do with the "ViaUsbAudio.sys" driver under Win 8.1. It causes me blue screens now. Never had this before. So I am unsure what to do now... hope anyone here has had similar problems and could help me through it. Thanks a lot. UPDATE: I have installed the...

Hmmmmm what I said before was bollocks. Just today I turned on my notebook once again and the same events started happening again :-/ Removing the AC cord didn't help this time. It was still doing it. The only thing that helps is to "eject" the Oehlbach DAC like a normal USB apparatus and...

Well I guess so far no one else truly has any idea either what it can be.... but it is something with electricity I guess.

Well, so far I figured out ONE thing and one thing alone though.... that whenever now I seem to unplug the AC cord to my notebook (thus running from the battery) I haven't been able to recreate the phenomena again. I also read somewhere for USB DACs to disable the "selective USB-Suspend"...

Hello everyone! I have been using the above DAC for a while and the quality to me is very good. However, everytime now I watch an MKV or BluRay, Avi, Mpeg and no matter what audio and video codec it uses, there at a very random rate minor hickups in the playback. The sound switches to my...

I have to agree wholeheartedly with you on this one alynx. Just got the HD700 myself, hooked it up on my new Oehlbach XXL DAC (great German combi ^^) and I have never heard anything so beautifully in my life before. I am really enjoying it. The treble is just fine and the overall bass is good...

Hello PurpleAngel, I hope you are reading this sooner or later :-) As I have a few more questions that I wish you can provide me. I use my laptop mainly for watching divx/xvid and mkv video's. My old Sennheiser HD 485 broke and I used it always with this laptop :-(   Now with the HD 650...

So do I ^__^ Guess I'd need to do a little more digging into this sometime later. But frankly, all I care about most for my PS4 is good music/sound through headphones. I chose the HD 650 a while back because money isn't something I have enough of. So I can't try more headphones. But I am...

Thank you. Your aid is most appreciated. It is helpful having those around with decent knowledge to help others. You might have knowledge about some microphones that should work in a PS4 controller as a combi with the magni2/modi2 uber's + HD 650 ? By the by I won't miss the surround effects...

Ok that should be settled. I plan to buy the uber versions of both the modi and magni2 versions. At one point in the near future I'd like to use it with my PC as well. I see the uber has 2x rca. In and Out. Is it correct for PS4 stereo headphone use that I connect the modi2 optical to the ps4...

Thank for replying both of you! I understand it completely. However, I've heard of the mix amp's bad quality so I'd like to avoid it at all costs. Yes I can disable the DTS and Dolby settings through the Optical out on my ps4. But no further need is necessary to connect the modi/magni...

I also bumped into this topic here: https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/2pdlwv/schiit_magni_or_vali_for_gaming/ Read it thoroughly and I really liked it. But nevertheless I do not understand a few things very well. I hope someone can help me connect my PS4 to this setup with schiit...

Dear everyone! I have been wondering if I could use the optical out of my PS4 to the Schiit Modi2 Uber (Has optical) and the Modi2 to the Vali and from there use my new HD 650 headphones to play games on the PS4 with headphone sound. Will this setup work just like on a PC (I may plan to...

Thanks. Yes and I already know. I use VLC Player and MPC as well. The latter I installed from K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. No I just have to change settings for output through MPC, but it's driven by FFDShow audio. I configured it that way long ago. It gives good audio. But I figured by now I have to...

Thanks for the explanation. That really helped me. I am starting to understand it a lot better now. So basically you "sacrifice" the sound cards optical toslink out for the toslink input on any dac+amp correct? I noticed there isn't any optical out on any dac+amp, just 2 RCA for stereo output (...

Well explained. I get it much better now. Except one thing. Let's suppose I will be willing to get the Audio-GD NFB-11 and use my toslink optical out on my fatal1ty pro to this DAC+build in Amp optical in, then can I still get even better sound in 5.1 through this DAC? I suppose not. It's for...

Yes that is a possibility as well. Hmmm. The DAC is some kind of sound card of itself right? Therefore my OS will detect it as a separate apparatus and send the audio through there if I choose it so in my OS. Correct? But I am thinking of buying the USB one instead of the toslink optical...

I have been looking at the Schiit as well. I live in Europe and my budget is nearly allowing your combination as well. But I can also buy the combination Modi + Magni. What is the difference between the Magni and Vali exactly? The price difference is not severe. But then how to connect? I...

Dear Head-Fi professionals, I am completely new around here but I have always had a special place in my heart for good music and sounds. The situation is as following: I have a Creative Platinum Fatal1ty Professional in my PC with a Logitech Z-5500 5.1 set. I love it so far. I still use...