FredNowak wrote: 
> The Wyred4Sound Micro Dac (µDAC) is a 24/96 Async USB, 24/192 coxaxial
> and 24/192 optical input Dac. The Dac can be powered by the USB cable or
> by an external 9v power supply. All three inputs can be powered by
> either power supply. 
> 
> Here is what I have at present:
> 1. Without the EDO the SBT converts the wav and flac formats before
> sending the stream on the coaxial input. With the EDO the SBT does not
> do a conversion and everything sounds good.
> 
> 2. With USB, no hub, and the 9v power supply the EDO recognizes the Dac
> and plays in the adaptive mode. I cannot say it sounds any different
> than the coaxial input. There are no pops or clicks.
> 
> 3. I have unpowered and powered hubs that work successfully with the HRT
> Music Streamer II. If I use either of these hubs or do not use the
> external 9v power supply the EDO is unable to find the µDAC. When the
> powered hub and 9v power supply are used the initial install of the EDO
> will report the hub as "USB-Audio - USB Device 0x1950:0x9019" but after
> the reboot it cannot find the Dac. Other combinations of hub and power
> supply never report a Dac.
> 
> Here are the aplay reports:
> 1. Direct connection (SBT to DAC)
> /root$ aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: TXRX [MXC SPDIF TX/RX], device 0: MXC_SPDIF [MXC_SPDIF]
> Subdevices: 0/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: USB [MICRO DAC Async USB], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: USB [MICRO DAC Async USB], device 1: USB Audio [USB Audio #1]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 2: fab4 [fab4], device 0: fab4-ak4420 []
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> 
> 
> 2. With USB hub (SBT to hub to DAC)
> /root$ aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: TXRX [MXC SPDIF TX/RX], device 0: MXC_SPDIF [MXC_SPDIF]
> Subdevices: 0/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: fab4 [fab4], device 0: fab4-ak4420 []
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 2: fab4_1 [fab4], device 0: fab4-wm8974 []
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> 
> 
> I really think the EDO with the Wyred4Sound µDAC is a superb combination
> for the SBT and is a keeper for me.
> 
> Fred

As far as I know the Wyred4Sound DACs use the M2Tech OEM board which
means they need a proprietary driver to work, which does not exist for
linux. Thus i would not expect to get it to work over USB at all.

John S.


------------------------------------------------------------------------
JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512

_______________________________________________
Touch mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch

Reply via email to