Continuing my report on my disastrous experience regarding UD-H01's Tenor chip (reported in
http://www.head-fi.org/t/560940/teac-ud-h01-usb-dac/60#post_8615515)
I finally decided to get around and replace it, so eventually I got a replacement (mind you, I had to wait almost 2 months!). With new hope, I tried with the new unit, but... I almost threw it in the dustbin after having the same issues on the new unit, alas with latest Teac drivers + ASIO4all + foobar ASIO plugin (on Win7 64-bit). Therefore I have been using the Optical port for some time (just to avoid BSODs + have some sound out of my pc for the limited time home) but today I decided to put some time into it. USB async just sounds sooo much better than optical...
So I found out AudioGd has published a new major release of its Tenor drivers (check v2.0 driver under http://www.audio-gd.com/Pro/dac/TE8802/TE8802EN.htm), and I thought, what the h3ll, let's try this out, chip is same so all should work fine. I installed the new drivers and all seems to be working ! Dpclat even reporting green for 24/96 !! Wow wasn't expecting that!!
A few facts for anybody wanting to try out :
- After you install AudioGd drivers the DAC won't be recognised since Windows won't know why it should connect the Teac hardware with the AudioGd driver. Therefore you have to manually set the Windows to use AudioGd driver for the Teac. Piece of cake, really
- Foobar/ASIO was hissing a lot even in 16/44.1 so I increased samples in ASIO drivers to 1920, all seems to be fine thereafter
- Foobar output uses ASIO4All but AudioGd also installs its own ASIO! I haven't tried that yet (since all is OK so far...)