Justin & Jerry's Hifi Blog

[jandl100]

Is it driver issues jerry ? Had some initial problems getting the driver introduced to the async myself.

Dunno.

One of the beasts is said not to need a special driver - although that is being chased up today.
The other has a driver to download and install, which I have done - I get music but with accompanying popping sounds!

[User211]

I am not sure I didn't bin the MF but will look this w/e.

Streaming through these devices can cause mental problems trying to find out why it doesn't work.

[User211]

Found some time to check - yup, I did bin it, as no one bought it and I couldn't be arsed with the likely returns after ebay/Paypal fees etc.

Soz. I had genuinely forgotten I'd ditched it.

[struth]

The hifime diy usb dacs with sabre chip are pretty decent for money

[jandl100]

No worries, Justin - someone else sent me a V-Link 192 - arrived this morning.

So I now have 3 USB converters that I can't get to work properly.

One makes a static-like noise
One shows all locks are good, but conveys no sound at all
One plays music accompanied by popping sounds.



Gone back to straight USB into my DAC (with the same USB cable) and that works great.

[Audio Advent]

Didn't know that Sam , neat trick

Good way to compare dacs if you can set output levels to match somehow (or of course the different inputs or cables).

[Audio Advent]

No worries, Justin - someone else sent me a V-Link 192 - arrived this morning.

So I now have 3 USB converters that I can't get to work properly.

One makes a static-like noise
One shows all locks are good, but conveys no sound at all
One plays music accompanied by popping sounds.



Gone back to straight USB into my DAC (with the same USB cable) and that works great.

Are you using a PC or Mac?

One thing with having already used the USB input to your current DAC is that windows will have installed a driver for it and will be switching to that usb driver when you plug it in. If one of the others uses the same make of USB receiver chip but a later version, then perhaps windows is assuming it's your original DAC and not bothering to install the new driver?

I had some issues from memory with popping with an older driver for the chip in the Async 1 and all was resolved with the updated driver (which was on the Beresford site) This for Win 8.1 - I think the older driver worked well only in win 8.0.

Another thing too - sometimes it can depend when you plug in your usb cable, before or after starting the music software. Sometimes the software you're playing from needs to be restarted in order to re-direct the sound to the new audio device you've just plugged in..

Take a look at the sound properties on whatever computer you're using and see what it says it's playing through..

One final thought - when I plugged the async 1 into my dad's pc for the first time I ended up deleting the usb driver for the Caiman II that did work and restart the pc just to make sure. Again that was a windows issue of it not picking the correct driver after I'd installed it.

[hughandella]

Are you using a PC or Mac?

One thing with having already used the USB input to your current DAC is that windows will have installed a driver for it and will be switching to that usb driver when you plug it in. If one of the others uses the same make of USB receiver chip but a later version, then perhaps windows is assuming it's your original DAC and not bothering to install the new driver?

I had some issues from memory with popping with an older driver for the chip in the Async 1 and all was resolved with the updated driver (which was on the Beresford site) This for Win 8.1 - I think the older driver worked well only in win 8.0.

Another thing too - sometimes it can depend when you plug in your usb cable, before or after starting the music software. Sometimes the software you're playing from needs to be restarted in order to re-direct the sound to the new audio device you've just plugged in..

Take a look at the sound properties on whatever computer you're using and see what it says it's playing through..

One final thought - when I plugged the async 1 into my dad's pc for the first time I ended up deleting the usb driver for the Caiman II that did work and restart the pc just to make sure. Again that was a windows issue of it not picking the correct driver after I'd installed it.

good advice I think --- it has to be a compatability issue --- I know one of the units definitely works --- I must admit having Apple makes it a lot easier ! .... keep the faith Jerry !

[struth]

go into the system list and install it (the driver) manually.

[jandl100]

Thanks for the advice, Sam.

|I have a laptop PC.

Too tired now to have a go, but will be able to have another crack at it on Sunday.

I know that when I installed the driver for the MF V-Link it showed that as the active driver (called it V-Link so seemed unambiguously correct!) but no sound came out.
I don't doubt that all 3 units are fine, and that the problem is in my setup.