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My Modi Multibit receives 24/192 from my Asus Xonar DX just fine.
This mimby must be soooooo good! Been trying for almost 10 days now on the classifieds, have not had one response to my wanted add. That's very telling!
Mimby is the real deal. Unfortunately mine is out of commission at the moment.
It is the best sounding DAC that I know of for less than $1K.
Usually optical for 24/192 has more to do with the cable and cleanliness of the sending port than the DAC when it comes to Schiit products.
And 24/192 is challenge for optical in general. You'll see that in many pieces of gear, optical is specified as only providing up 10 24/96. Not sure what solutions might be there for you? A higher quality cable? (would love recs) A signal booster?
192 has never been officially supported by toslink, so most of the time when you see 96, it has nothing to do with whether the gear can do 192, but rather that they just blindly repeated the spec.
I use this cable and have only had one brief instance where it wouldn't lock 192. Carefully wiped down the end with camera lens cleaning solution and it locked 192 fine again.
FosPower (6 Feet) 24K Gold Plated Toslink to Mini Toslink Digital Optical S/PDIF Audio Cable with Metal Connectors & Strain-Relief PVC Jacket https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T8HWV62/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_JvpFybMQ7XD2A
MacBook Pro to that cable to MiMBy. They make "regular" connector versions as well that, if anything, should be better than the MacBook .375mm connector version.
My Modi Multibit receives 24/192 from my Asus Xonar DX just fine.
It is the best sounding DAC that I know of for less than $1K.
Those less then 1k dac from MHDT can compete with mimby depending on your preference for music genre and dac types.
Those less then 1k dac from MHDT can compete with mimby depending on your preference for music genre and dac types.
I received my Mimby yesterday, I started by connecting via optical to my motherboard. It seemed to work fine with 24/192, but I noticed a popping sound when I started a song or when I skipped to different parts of the track. Every time the audio started again there would be a pop/crackle. I tried setting to 24/96 and the problem persisted. I switched to USB, set to 24/192, and the problem was gone. I'm guessing this is an issue with my motherboard's onboard optical (this is my motherboard) rather than an issue with the Mimby. Just curious if anyone had experienced something similar.
Unrelated question: When I plugged mimby in via USB, Windows 10 installed it automatically as Schiit USB Audio Gen 2. The manual said that I needed to install drivers from schiit.com/drivers, but when I tried the driver installer it just said "please connect cmedia usb device" and the installer would exit. It seems to work fine, just checking to see what the actual setup procedure is.
I had the same issue when using ASIO in foobar, so I switched to wasapi event and no more popping sounds I´m using optical input too
Windows 10 has now included the usb modi driver so there is no need to install manually, just plug it in and it will be ready to go
Are you using asio4all?