Did you remember to buy the $2000 power cable that plugs into the wall where the other 2miles of wire is still the same or what about the gold plated optical cable with platinum power :-D

  This ofc. solves the problem... but i guess there is a reason why they write to only use it with phones. But i would bet it has some negative effects, also if i ever forget to turn it off I'm guessing it will just drain the battery completely.   well again the description from ifi of what...

  it's the ifi windows driver(or some part of the audio driver chain) that closes the connection to the unit (USB audio pipe) after just 5 seconds of no audio. The newest version of the firmware now apparently has some deep sleep mode that is already activated after about 10 seconds of no...

  from the firmware update page   @iFi audio so this description isn't really matching the actual experience of updating version 5.20, also the support team should have been notified. But would again say that the 5 second startup is a no-go for me(and properly a lot of other users), you...

  i did downgrade 5.10, basically on ifi's request, because they couldn't be bothered to test themselves if that worked..   from ifi support:

Sooo after having fun with ifi support after the latest 5.20 firmware, I can no longer recommend the ifi Micro iDSD.   Firmware 5.20 introduces 5 seconds delay before playing audio after being idle for just 15 seconds(in windows atleast). this ofc. results in missing the start of a song unless...

And there we have it:     what a freakin joke.. so its just like a tube amp, every 20 seconds.. clearly necessary for a digital dac

ifi has now confirmed to me that there is a bug on version 5.20 that introduces a 5 seconds delay after 15-20 seconds of idle.   I am just a little surprised that a bug like that would make it through QC.. but hey **** happens

  So tested it at work... the 5 seconds delay is happening on all machines i tested on after just being idle for 15-20 seconds (Laptops/desktops/win10/win8.1/win7) reported this to ifi ofc.

well that is not true... if you push pause and then play immediately after, it will just start playing instantly without any pop or anything

windows / mac / phone?? and what version?   but if in windows 1) goto control panel > power options > change plan settings(on the current option selected) > change advanced power settings > USB settings > USB selective suspend > and disable   2) goto control panel > Device manager >...

  Already did that, but thnx also disabled USB sleep in the the device manager, on everything relating to audio and USB.   the only other thing i can do is disable power states completely for everything in the bios.. but that will make everything  including my i7 cpu and my nvidia graphics...

  it's not from standby, its USB power state change, sorry if it sounds disrespectful, but i have no other USB device that acts like that on my computer... i don't see my mouse or keyboard taking a 5-6 second break if i don't touch them for 16 seconds, pretty sure people would return their...

i did that .. that is why it is a quote but should be easier to understand now   will bring it to work on monday and see if pulls the same crap on my win7 workstation

Wrote this to the IFI support in regards to firmware 5.20  

  Already did this and it doesn't help, could just disable power saving in general but that is pretty suicidal on a laptop.   Basically it should be the Drivers provided by iFi that tells the PC that it is not allowed to sleep that port/device , i know this is also an issue on some onboard pc...

  Mine have this feature/problem as well, its not sleep mode, I loose half a second of playback happens after just 10 seconds of no data on the USB. Got some lame answer from ifi that i could just run a program in the background that would output empty audio constantly. There is not indication...

I have a small delay in windows before the device turns on and starts playing music(½ second), like its in some kind of sleep mode(the status LED is just showing all green), i have tried disabling sleep mode on all the USB ports with no luck also tried 5.1b firmware that didn't help either. Is...

Could you do a loop-back measurement from the iDSD(play a music file, record the output from the iDSD and compare the waveforms) i returned my E5 after being very dissapointed with the output it made(could be mine was defective) So now i am in the market for something that will actually do...

I was looking for something to get rid of the internal noise on the sound card in my laptop and found the sound blaster E5, read a lot of reviews most where pretty positive without any big complaints. So bought this thing a couple of days ago and hooked it up to my laptop, got the newest...