goldsmith83
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I see the iDSD Black deal on Adorama has sadly ended. I think I shall buy a Mojo or a Dacamp L1 and leave the iDSD for a better time.
I see the iDSD Black deal on Adorama has sadly ended. I think I shall buy a Mojo or a Dacamp L1 and leave the iDSD for a better time.
Import the Mojo from AmazonUK, total should come out to $444
So I finally got back from my trip to Asia and was able to return my faulty idsd micro (there was too much hiss and so on, it was unbearable). Haven't been able to listen to good music for almost a month (honestly the macbook headphone out is not very good to my ears). FINALLY got it exchanged (different seller on amazon for the second piece). And this one doesn't even start up. Rapidly blinking green/blue. I plug it in and about a 1/2 hour later it completely turns off, then i unplug and plug it back in again...rinse and repeat. (As per directions on the ifi site).
P.S, if @iFi audio is reading this, your site says "In rare cases (actually so far only theoretical, we have not been able to provoke this in practice) the battery may be depleted so much that after the expiry of the 30 minutes for “flat battery provision” the battery can still not be charged normally.", you may want to check this out because I definitely proved that in practice.
Frankly at this point I'm thinking of cutting my losses and just buying a chord Mojo...only reason I bought the idsd over the mojo was price, but this isn't worth it.
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yup, that's the case of a battery as flat as a pancake. Please take a look here: http://ifi-audio.com/audio_blog/smartpower-please-feed-the-meaty-monster-part-1/
yup, that's the case of a battery as flat as a pancake. Please take a look here: http://ifi-audio.com/audio_blog/smartpower-please-feed-the-meaty-monster-part-1/
If you noticed that exact site is linked in my post, so obviously I know about it and have thus tried it all. Anyway I returned this particular unit. But still have my original one as I had to travel and couldn't return it within 30 days. (It has really bad high frequency noise and lots of bleeding in said frequency making any rock song unbearable to listen to, hurts my ears after a few hours).
All in all, I am VERY dissapointed and would honestly love suggestions for something else to buy that is of equal quality/price range (a 1/4" out would help ofc). Note that due to the idsd micro, I am now DEATHLY afraid of the words "treble splash" so chrome mojo is a no go as well.
I tried contacting ifi support, someone either here or another forum mentioned how bad it was, and I have to agree, they just keep emailing me questions I have already answered or suggestions I have either tried and said I have or suggestions so obvious they should not be mentioned after 5 emails in the chain (e.g. "make sure you have a good quality audio file"...well obviously..I did say "the exact same setup works amazingly WITHOUT the idsd micro but onboard soundcard instead").
I was suspecting iFi Micro iDSD driver issues so I uninstalled it via the control panel. Now, when I try to install it again the installer says it is already installed. I'm guessing the uninstall from the control panel did not remove everything. How can I install the driver fresh again? Any clues would be most appreciated.
hello .I use IDSD as a simple dac in my audio system , USB imput RCA output to my preamplifier and then I choose on the device the Direct function and not the other (preamp). It is possible or convenient to play with filters or other options like Power or IMatch I see that such functions are kept active despite my selection