[slim.a]

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Originally Posted by regal /img/forum/go_quote.gif Are there any audiophile grade usb cables that would fit this unit?

I have tried the Teralink-x with various usb cables : no-name, Real cable, Belkin Gold, Monster and Wirewrorld Ultraviolet.
The Wireworld Ultraviolet USB was the best sounding one (same results using it with the emu 0404 usb and Musiland).

 

[slim.a]

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Originally Posted by regal /img/forum/go_quote.gif This is the only TeraLink-x thread I could find.

Since it seems to be the only thread about the Teralink-x I changed the title from "drivers discussion" to " general discussion" and updated my first post

 

[regal]

As far as the AC/DC adapter I found a nice linear supply on digikey. I am assuming 300 mA is enough:

 

[Ciu]

Hello !

I've just got a Teralink and plugged between my PC and ESS Sabre24 Dac , replacing PCM2707 as USB-spdif converter , working perfectly ! .
Usually, when I plug on USB, I have a panel from Windows xp, searching for Drivers to install...But, with Teralink, nothing is needed ? Why not....
The green led is on, fix
I launch JRiver, as player and start playing music...
A bad noise in background (clic-clic ) , and the green led goes on/off .
I'm a bit disapointed about this, I seem to have seen some comments about a similar trouble, but can't find now..
Any advice about this ?
Thanks for any help
R.C.

 

[regal]

I hooked my TerraLinkX to my laptop today. With foobar the Kernal Streaming just locks up. With ASIO4All Foobar doesn't recognize the device.

On a positive note the automatic windows drivers that install when plugged in pass the HDCD bit perfect test, but I would really like to figure out how to get asio4all to work.

 

[slim.a]

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Originally Posted by regal /img/forum/go_quote.gif I hooked my TerraLinkX to my laptop today. With foobar the Kernal Streaming just locks up. With ASIO4All Foobar doesn't recognize the device. On a positive note the automatic windows drivers that install when plugged in pass the HDCD bit perfect test, but I would really like to figure out how to get asio4all to work.

Teralink-X doesn't seem to work with KS. However, it worked fine with ASIO4ALL with foobar0.8.3, foobar0.9.x, and MediaMonkey. Do you have multiple sound cards connected to your pc ? did you restart your computer after installing asio4all ?

 

[slim.a]

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Originally Posted by Ciu /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hello ! I've just got a Teralink and plugged between my PC and ESS Sabre24 Dac , replacing PCM2707 as USB-spdif converter , working perfectly ! . Usually, when I plug on USB, I have a panel from Windows xp, searching for Drivers to install...But, with Teralink, nothing is needed ? Why not.... The green led is on, fix I launch JRiver, as player and start playing music... A bad noise in background (clic-clic ) , and the green led goes on/off . I'm a bit disapointed about this, I seem to have seen some comments about a similar trouble, but can't find now.. Any advice about this ? Thanks for any help R.C.

Sorry to hear about that. When I installed my unit, there was the usual windows xp search for drivers. If I remember correctly, when I switched usb ports, it did the search again.
As for the green light : it starts flickering (on/off) whenever there is audio playing, and stops when there is no audio playing.
Did you try it with optical or coax ?

 

[regal]

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Originally Posted by slim.a /img/forum/go_quote.gif Teralink-X doesn't seem to work with KS. However, it worked fine with ASIO4ALL with foobar0.8.3, foobar0.9.x, and MediaMonkey. Do you have multiple sound cards connected to your pc ? did you restart your computer after installing asio4all ?

I have foobar 0.9x and the Foo_ASIO.dll plugin, but it doesn't recognize any ASIO4 all

 

[Ciu]

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Originally Posted by slim.a /img/forum/go_quote.gif Sorry to hear about that. When I installed my unit, there was the usual windows xp search for drivers. If I remember correctly, when I switched usb ports, it did the search again. As for the green light : it starts flickering (on/off) whenever there is audio playing, and stops when there is no audio playing. Did you try it with optical or coax ?

Thanks for some details about flickering led, I was thinking about a problem of locking !
About drivers, I didn't saw when plugged first time, because I ve had probably installed similar interface in the past, I have much USB/spdif converters
When I look at audio properties in Windows, I can see "CM audio Usb", so should ne nice ?
I've just had an answer from Kevin, the ebay seller, recommanding "not to use Asio4all drivers, but native windows"
Did someone had similar problems with Teralink and Asio drivers ?
I use RCA from Teralink to ESS Dac

Thans for your help !
R.C.

 

[slim.a]

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Originally Posted by regal /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have foobar 0.9x and the Foo_ASIO.dll plugin, but it doesn't recognize any ASIO4 all

For foobar, you should copy your "foo_out_asio.dll" into the component folder of foobar "Program Files\foobar2000\components" if you haven't done so. Then you have to make sure that you added the ASIO4ALL to your virtual devices (see the picture attached)

 

[slim.a]

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Originally Posted by Ciu /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks for some details about flickering led, I was thinking about a problem of locking ! About drivers, I didn't saw when plugged first time, because I ve had probably installed similar interface in the past, I have much USB/spdif converters When I look at audio properties in Windows, I can see "CM audio Usb", so should ne nice ? I've just had an answer from Kevin, the ebay seller, recommanding "not to use Asio4all drivers, but native windows" Did someone had similar problems with Teralink and Asio drivers ? I use RCA from Teralink to ESS Dac Thans for your help ! R.C.

Yes the Teralink shows as C-media usb at the audio properties.
As for Asio4all, it gave me very good results with foobar 0.8.3 and the modified otachan asio plugin. However, it is necessary, to deactivate the resampling to 48 which muddies the sound.
From memory, it seems to me that asio4all was better than DS (native windows) but I didn't spend much them A/Bing. Anyway, you should trust your own ears and choose the setting you feel most confortable with

The ploytec usb asio driver was clearly a step up in sound quality, they offer a free version for trial that has however an annoying bip every 30 seconds.

 

[regal]

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Originally Posted by slim.a /img/forum/go_quote.gif For foobar, you should copy your "foo_out_asio.dll" into the component folder of foobar "Program Files\foobar2000\components" if you haven't done so. Then you have to make sure that you added the ASIO4ALL to your virtual devices (see the picture attached)

Yes that is how it has worked with other converters but I get nothing, see screenshot. I think something is wrong with my ASIO4ALL installation I'm using Win XP SP3. Need to this working as I play a lot of DTS and HDCD. I cant upgrade this laptop to Win 7 cause it only has 512mb ram.

 

[slim.a]

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Originally Posted by regal /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yes that is how it has worked with other converters but I get nothing, see screenshot. I think something is wrong with my ASIO4ALL installation I'm using Win XP SP3. Need to this working as I play a lot of DTS and HDCD. I cant upgrade this laptop to Win 7 cause it only has 512mb ram.

Did you try the "add new" button ? Then you can do the configuration. (see the 2 attached pictures)

 

[regal]

The add new brought it up, had to set it to not resample to 48khz to get it to pass the DTS bit perfect test.

Can't wait to try it with the linear power supply I bought from Digikey.


Thanks for the help, I've always been a PCI guy, this is my first laptop music server computer.

 

[slim.a]

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Originally Posted by regal /img/forum/go_quote.gif The add new brought it up, had to set it to not resample to 48khz to get it to pass the DTS bit perfect test. Can't wait to try it with the linear power supply I bought from Digikey. Thanks for the help, I've always been a PCI guy, this is my first laptop music server computer.

Regal,
What are your impressions on the performance of the Teralink ? Did you compare it with other transports ?