>Seems that it won't work in Linux, which kills it for me.
Kinda obvious, since it's a custom driver like they make for Musiland US 02. Otherwise they would be very unlikely to get 192khz/24b. Hence, no linux or mac drivers yet or maybe ever. (you could email and ask, who knows, maybe they plan to make them?)
Nice link though. Thanks for that. Nice review/comparison to MD10.
I received my unit today. It took only 4 days to deliver to Aus via EMS.
The volume control is a digital one (you can spin it right or left, there are distinct dials but no min or max. Click to mute, or skip to the next option in the menu).
Sound volume can be set via the Musiland windows UI panel and/or using the vol control on the unit. The unit has a display with controllable backlight brightness, color/contrast settings.
The volume controller also functions as a menu navigation tool. Through the menu you can change what the input is (usb, optical, rca, bnc, musilnk). You can also switch the headphone and or line outs on/off. You don't seem to need to reboot the unit to change inputs or outputs.
The unit came with a power cable (2x - 1 australia, 1 eu...Not really GB like the review suggests), a usb cable, a ...musilink cable (not that I know what to with it. seems to be for musiland to musiland connections) and a driver cd (they forgot to close the cd session btw, not a big deal, but rather amusing).
The driver CD autorun is in english, so is the driver (well, or you could select chinese). The manual and quick start guide are in chinese, but everything is pretty self-explanatory. The only thing I don't understand is a menu setting 'MMDI Locked On/Off'. That really escapes me.
Here are some UI shots
p.s. the headphone amp is fairly decent. Much better than US 02. Probably better than the Aune.
So far it can drive both my D5000 and SM3 or SM3+200Ohm adapter without any problems. With the impedance adapter, the volume at 50% is already very loud even for classical music (louder than what normally cliped my SRM-252a + sr-202).
The line out sounds is neutral and I have no complaints about either the line out of the amp.
For a better description, read the review in the link above posted by
imyself. The google translation is surprisingly legible (until he gets to describing the sound) and the review has RMAA results.
