[obsidyen]

Guys, I play a SACD rip DSD64 Depeche Mode album in Foobar 2000 but it shows green light. Shouldn't it be cyan? Am I doing something wrong?

 

[ClieOS]

  Guys, I play a SACD rip DSD64 Depeche Mode album in Foobar 2000 but it shows green light. Shouldn't it be cyan? Am I doing something wrong?

 
Have you set it up correctly?
 
http://support.ifi-audio.com/kb/file.php?h=dpX1vwokBzRIfCQNeDppO8G3f3dYvzO0dbcce4a67e3387e64c42bca0d5f2e92b

 

[Trogdor]

Guys, I play a SACD rip DSD64 Depeche Mode album in Foobar 2000 but it shows green light. Shouldn't it be cyan? Am I doing something wrong?

Are you doing DSD native (DoP) or is foobar2k converting it on the fly?

 

[obsidyen]

Are you doing DSD native (DoP) or is foobar2k converting it on the fly?

I'm not sure. I don't know much about DoP  or other DSD formats to be honest. Foobar 2000 says it's a DSD 64 file. For instance I get the right light (yellow) while playing 192 khz. 

 

[obsidyen]

   
Have you set it up correctly?
 
http://support.ifi-audio.com/kb/file.php?h=dpX1vwokBzRIfCQNeDppO8G3f3dYvzO0dbcce4a67e3387e64c42bca0d5f2e92b

 
The driver is working fine.

 

[ClieOS]

Foobar is saying what it is reading, not what it is outputting. You need to be sure you have the DSD ASIO running and it is set to do DoP.

 

[obsidyen]

  Foobar is saying what it is reading, not what it is outputting. You need to be sure you have the DSD ASIO running and it is set to do DoP.

Ok, I'll check again when I go home. It was set to "Wasapi (Event)". Thanks for the replies.

 

[Trogdor]

Actually, I am trying native DOP on my iFI and the light is still green. This is Audirvana 2.1.1 on OSX 10.10.4.

The light turned orange initially and then green during playback. It's orange for standard hi-res PCM (24/96 or 192 etc.).

 

[rickyleelee]

Easy buddy. Foobar outputing PCM 16/44. need to check your settings.

 

[heart banger-97]

Hello guys,
I have a question regarding the comparison of idac2 and idsd.
 
I'm looking for a dac for my desktop rig and I mainly listen to 16/44100 files. Is there any merit in idsd over idac2 from technical point of view in playing 16/44100 files?   
1- Do 2 dac chip of idsd outperform one dac chip of idac2 in converting 16/44100 files?
2- Does having a battery, make idsd sounds better than idac2 with 16/44100 files?

 

[kuekwee]

Anyone try ifi micro idsd on hifiman he1000? Enough to power it?

 

[h1f1add1cted]

The iFi can drive a HE-6 and a Abyss I don't see why the HE-1000 would not work too. But yes would be nice to hear from someone about this combo.

 

[john57]

The HE-1000 with a Sensitivity of 90 dB is much easier to drive than the HE-6 so I do not see a issue with the iDSD micro power-wise.

 

[maricius]

Hello guys,
I have a question regarding the comparison of idac2 and idsd.

I'm looking for a dac for my desktop rig and I mainly listen to 16/44100 files. Is there any merit in idsd over idac2 from [COLOR=FF0000]technical point of view[/COLOR] in playing 16/44100 files?   
1- Do 2 dac chip of idsd outperform one dac chip of idac2 in converting 16/44100 files?
2- Does having a battery, make idsd sounds better than idac2 with 16/44100 files?

1-All I know is that two chips generally lead to a better SNR.
2-If your USB power is dirty then yes, most probably.

The two devices have similar functions but I don't think you can compare them just with aspects like these. There is more to implementation. I guess what you mean to say is if the iDAC2 had 2 chips or if the iDAC2 had an onboard battery supply would it sound better? To those, the answer is a resounding yes (at the same quality of implementation).

 

[GrahamL]

NEW APP ALERT!

Spurred on by Apple's idiot decision to remove Home Sharing from the latest version of iOS, I thought I'd do the usual periodic check of the App Store to see if there was finally an app that ticks all my boxes with respect to hi-res listening.

What I found was Ne Player from a Japanese company called Radius. I've not seen it mentioned before, and it's a good 'un. Actually, for my use case, it's unique and with limited testing it beats HF Player, Hibiki etc for me because it handles hi-res PCM and DSD properly **AND will pull from a DNLA server**.

Link to iOS version below. Also available for Android.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id970389374?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6


With either MinimServer or Asset UPnP running as a DNLA server, I can play hi-res ALAC up to 24/192 AND NATIVE DSD (DSD64) via my iDSD Micro. Everything stays in its native format and is bit-perfectly passed off to the DAC. The app will even package DSD as DoP on the fly meaning you can have the server just send straight .dsf files and the app handles the rest.

Two small bugs/issues I've found:

1. When playing DSD albums from .dsf files, the app stops and crashes when it reaches the end of a track. Workaround is to set the DNLA server to serve the DSD as DoP (which both Minim and Asset can do easily). This then works fine, but could do with fixing.

2. Can't achieve gapless playback when playing from a DNLA server - approx 1s gap.

It's a relatively expensive app (£10.99/$14.99) but despite the niggles, I feel it's decent value, worth supporting for further development, and it will now be my go-to app for hi-res. Excellent work, devs, thank you. Some screenshots below...


Playing DSD64 from a .dsf file and sending it as DoP to the iDSD Micro:




Playing 24/192 and sending to iDSD Micro as-is:




Settings:




More settings: