[Dynobot]

If you can't hear a difference and are still 100% satisfied with your set-up thats great....it means you are saving yourself a lot of cash, and headaches.
 
To be honest the differences can be very small, if not partly imagined.  And then there is pride of ownership and the trill of buying something new.  I have to admit, when I get a new piece of gear or some wire in the mail its like Christmas all over again.  Another plus is audio has a very well stocked used market, which means some great deals on some very pampered gear.
 
BTW, I got one of the ADuM USB isolators in the mail yesterday with a linear-regulated power supply....HUGE difference in USB!  It made what once was dim and lack luster into a sound that is crisp and clean.
 

 

[ninjikiran]

No a transport is a necessity   and a good product is going to make a difference.  I rather have a high end transport than a low end one even if its just 1's and 0's just for the peace of mind.
 
Even with cables, while I don't believe in hyper high end cables I believe a good cable cost a little more than $2.
 
Just talking about all the insanity with operating systems and different software players.  I'll meet you halfway and say if a decoder sucks it will affect the output quality but thats as far as I would take it.  Easy tweaks for the sake of doing it and for the sake that memory is faster and solid state such as setting foobar to load the full file into memory before playing.  Even if the quality isn't there, it doesn't effect the user experience nor does it cost anything . 
 
ASIO is better than WASAPI on a case to case basis.  If you need to tweak latency ASIO provides that front end WASAPI does not.  As far as audio playback don't notice the difference.
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If you can't hear a difference and are still 100% satisfied with your set-up thats great....it means you are saving yourself a lot of cash, and headaches.
 
To be honest the differences can be very small, if not partly imagined.  And then there is pride of ownership and the trill of buying something new.  I have to admit, when I get a new piece of gear or some wire in the mail its like Christmas all over again.  Another plus is audio has a very well stocked used market, which means some great deals on some very pampered gear.
 
BTW, I got one of the ADuM USB isolators in the mail yesterday with a linear-regulated power supply....HUGE difference in USB!  It made what once was dim and lack luster into a sound that is crisp and clean.
 

 

[Dynobot]

......$2
 

 
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Even with cables, while I don't believe in hyper high end cables I believe a good cable cost a little more than $2.

 

[leeperry]

 

 
BTW, I got one of the ADuM USB isolators in the mail yesterday with a linear-regulated power supply....HUGE difference in USB!  It made what once was dim and lack luster into a sound that is crisp and clean.

Which one? circuit@home's? can you tell me its three dimensions please? I will feed it from a linear regulated Firestone Supplier PSU,  and compare it against BigBear's self-powered dongle...but I haven't received it yet and I wanna build a faraday cage for it(so my neighbors wifi won't mess w/ it).

 

[Dynobot]

 
Its C@H......4.3 cm x 4.3cm x .9cm
 
Compared to the coax it retains all the clarity though out the frequency range plus more information in the lower mid down.
Compared to USB without it, before the USB was dull and veiled vs. now open and clear
Compared to toslink, toslink seems thicker in the mids and softer in the bass, coax bass is softer, USB via Adum is punchier
 
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Which one? circuit@home's? can you tell me its three dimensions please? I will feed it from a linear regulated Firestone Supplier PSU,  and compare it against BigBear's self-powered dongle...but I haven't received it yet and I wanna build a faraday cage for it(so my neighbors wifi won't mess w/ it).

 

[leeperry]

ok, thanks! can't wait to hear ADUM4160 from a proper PSU, it's already such a banger off the computer's noisy ATX SMPS

 
I guess the PSU jack won't be the same as my DPS, but I'll cannibalize some wallwart...or better, solder my DPS cable onto the C@H dongle PCB.

 

[LSR75]

Does anyone use a control panel on XP to set the output frequency ?

 

[LSR75]

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Does anyone use a control panel on XP to set the output frequency ?

Fool me. Solved... it was a bad driver installation. Multiple installations mixed up together.
 
Now Teralink CPL works fine. ASIO still pops here & then. Only DS works flawless.

 

[leeperry]

 

ASIO still pops here & then. Only DS works flawless.

yep, same here...GALAXY CORP are able to release a perfectly working drivers-free chip and simultaneously some worthless proprietary drivers that glitch and pop all over the place...I call it sarcasm

 

[Dragon2010]

http://www.ab-system.hk/USB/TeraLink-X2UsbASwPkg_v0p91p6p1a_20100915.zip
 
Teralink-X2 new driver

 

[leeperry]

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[Dragon2010]

I use the new driver for  A&B SYSTEMS version TX2 , the bass is better than old version driver and very good sense of reality!

 

[ROBSCIX]

How are the new drivers?  I will have to test them when I get a chance...

 

[_Spanky_]

How in the hell can a driver affect bass only? I installed the driver, downloaded the ASIO plugin for Foobar and couldn't output anything. I uninstalled it shortly after. It's been a while since I've used ASIO, was I supposed to have ASIO4All installed too or something?

 

[teraguy]

You can download the new driver from the following Teradak hotmail space.
http://cid-1eb7027489224a7d.office.live.com/browse.aspx/Teralink-X2%20ASIO%20driver%20%5E50.9%20beta%5E6
Any new driver will be released in the place.
If you have met any issue during installation or usage, please fill the bug-report document.   The Teradak will forward the bug issue to the vendor for fixing in the next version.  
 
 
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http://www.ab-system.hk/USB/TeraLink-X2UsbASwPkg_v0p91p6p1a_20100915.zip
 
Teralink-X2 new driver