FiiO Q1MKII- Native DSD Support, XMOS USB DAC chip, DAC AK4452, 20 hours
May 6, 2018 at 10:18 AM Post #601 of 834
If you remove the drivers, Windows can still use it, but as a basic sound device, so you can't use WASAPI and can't use it to its fullest capabilities (i.e. I think you can't use it with a sample rate higher than 48kHz).

It seems to work fine so far. I think what it just did was remove the fiio control panel. I can still set to 32/384 and everything is working fine. I'm quite sure the drivers are still installed since my PC couldnt even detect the Fiio Q1 Mk2 without the drivers. Thanks for your help!

EDIT:
So I did give the driver a few more tries, and finally found the root cause of the problem. It was caused by a virtual "line in" by my motherboard audio driver, which somehow kept demanding exclusive control of the DAC. I uninstalled it and everything works as it should!
 
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May 8, 2018 at 6:29 AM Post #602 of 834
It seems to work fine so far. I think what it just did was remove the fiio control panel. I can still set to 32/384 and everything is working fine. I'm quite sure the drivers are still installed since my PC couldnt even detect the Fiio Q1 Mk2 without the drivers. Thanks for your help!

EDIT:
So I did give the driver a few more tries, and finally found the root cause of the problem. It was caused by a virtual "line in" by my motherboard audio driver, which somehow kept demanding exclusive control of the DAC. I uninstalled it and everything works as it should!
Dear friend,

It works fine again now? Thanks for sharing the experience if so.

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May 9, 2018 at 4:00 AM Post #604 of 834
Yes, everything is working great now. Enjoying the Q1 Mk2 a lot! Thanks!
Ok, glad to hear about that. If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us.

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May 18, 2018 at 7:01 AM Post #605 of 834
I've noticed some people using this with the Shanling M1. Forgive the novice question but iirc they both share the same AK4452 DAC, so is the main benefit of this pairing the additional FiiO device functionality like the balanced output, or is there any SQ upgrade?
 
May 19, 2018 at 4:52 AM Post #606 of 834
Dear friend,

Generally, the DAC with the same DAC chip will have better sound quality when comparing to the player with the same DAC chip. But if there are local store in your country, it is recommended to have a try in there first.

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Jun 5, 2018 at 1:45 AM Post #609 of 834
Hi All,

I have a bit of a curly problem - curly as in annoying-but-I-don't-think-its-Fiio's-fault :wink:

Ran a quick Google search to no avail and I'll go back over this thread when I get the time but for now I have a very simple question : <B>is the correct driver for my Q1 MkII 'V4.13.0' ?</B>

- DAC/amp : Q1 MKII
- OS : Windows 10 Pro, Vers 1709
- Celeron N3450, 4GB DDR3L, 64GB Flash drive
- Problem : constant low-level crackle ('static') during playback of everything from Foobar to YouTube (and evident in Windows System Sounds).
- I uninstalled the device from Device Manager, reinstalled the driver and rebooted - even reinstalled Foobar but so far no luck

OK, the reason I don't believe its an issue with the DAC is simple : it works *perfectly* under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on the same laptop. I can schedule fsck on the Windows partition but I don't hear the static from the headphone out under either OS and I'm dubious that its a hardware issue on a brand new machine, esp when Linux works without issue. I'm not going to bang on about Linux/Mac OS vs Windows, but having ports that work without a driver download is a major plus for the other guys.

If I've downloaded the wrong driver or am missing the blindingly obvious, please advise - thanks in advance.

Cheers,

estreeter
 
Jun 5, 2018 at 2:47 AM Post #610 of 834
Hi All,

I have a bit of a curly problem - curly as in annoying-but-I-don't-think-its-Fiio's-fault :wink:

Ran a quick Google search to no avail and I'll go back over this thread when I get the time but for now I have a very simple question : <B>is the correct driver for my Q1 MkII 'V4.13.0' ?</B>

- DAC/amp : Q1 MKII
- OS : Windows 10 Pro, Vers 1709
- Celeron N3450, 4GB DDR3L, 64GB Flash drive
- Problem : constant low-level crackle ('static') during playback of everything from Foobar to YouTube (and evident in Windows System Sounds).
- I uninstalled the device from Device Manager, reinstalled the driver and rebooted - even reinstalled Foobar but so far no luck

OK, the reason I don't believe its an issue with the DAC is simple : it works *perfectly* under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on the same laptop. I can schedule fsck on the Windows partition but I don't hear the static from the headphone out under either OS and I'm dubious that its a hardware issue on a brand new machine, esp when Linux works without issue. I'm not going to bang on about Linux/Mac OS vs Windows, but having ports that work without a driver download is a major plus for the other guys.

If I've downloaded the wrong driver or am missing the blindingly obvious, please advise - thanks in advance.

Cheers,

estreeter
Are you using ASIO or wasapi?
 
Jun 5, 2018 at 3:13 AM Post #611 of 834
Are you using ASIO or wasapi?

Doh - I haven't messed around with any of that as I read that Windows 10 (actually 8.1) had fixed earlier issues with Windows Audio. I'll download ASIO tonight and give it another shot - thanks for the heads up.
 
Jun 5, 2018 at 3:25 AM Post #612 of 834
Doh - I haven't messed around with any of that as I read that Windows 10 (actually 8.1) had fixed earlier issues with Windows Audio. I'll download ASIO tonight and give it another shot - thanks for the heads up.
Windows DS (Direct Sound) is not the best way to output audio therefore please do look at wasapi and ASIO options for better control of the audio path as well as the bit depth/ sample rate etc. Wasapi is already included in Win 10.
 
Jun 5, 2018 at 10:53 PM Post #614 of 834
Windows DS (Direct Sound) is not the best way to output audio therefore please do look at wasapi and ASIO options for better control of the audio path as well as the bit depth/ sample rate etc. Wasapi is already included in Win 10.

Thanks again, but I'm going to pack it in for now - tried my Logitech headset with F2K and it works without the static (DS/ASIO/'Fiio ASIO' or WASAPI), so its clearly something odd between that layer and the Fiio DAC. Given that the latter works flawlessly in Linux and from an Android tablet, I dont consider this a Fiio problem : I'll uninstall everything and go back to Fiio's doco before starting again. Not for the first time, I thank all manner for deities that I was chained to a Unix command line for ~4 years of uni and beyond :wink:
 

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