M2Tech HiFace, what's going on?

[Reid Malenfant]

No worries. I was just wondering.

That's all I was doing m8 I'll give it some time tomorrow but I reckon there won't be a lot of difference if any, the source material simply isn't good enough

Another thing, I really wanted to try a V-Link... Reason being is because it has a Toslink output & I could then plug it into the Toslink on the DIP48/96 & get much more benefit. That little box makes such a big difference it's quite remarkable

But I still need to think about what I'm feeding it (once again) at the end of the day

[Welder]

I would have thought you had enough boxes by now

Completely the opposite approach to mine

[brian2957]

Any joy with the Hiface Mark.

[Maximum]

I've recently bought one of those Aqvox USB linear supplies. They cost nearly as much as the Hiface but I'm pretty chuffed with the improvement.

[Reid Malenfant]

Any joy with the Hiface Mark.

Haven't had a chance to sit down with the stereo on yet today Maybe tomorrow

[brian2957]

I know the feeling mate . It's blowing a gale up here and I'm the family taxi

when the weather isn't good . Been too busy for music and stuff.

Brian.

[Alex_UK]

There is no pretending that it's hi end or anything similar for one minute, however, if the HiFace does a better job then I'll keep it. If not it'll no doubt find it's way to someone else on here who may well make much better use of it

Well, I spotted that Mark wasn't getting the best experience from the Hiface, and pounced. A deal agreed, and the Hiface is now connected and setup in my system. I'm using XP as Mark was, but I use Foobar as my main playback software so can take advantage of the Kernel Streaming component. So not only am I able to squirt the maximum 24/96 the Caiman can take via Coax SPDIF, use asynchronous data transfer and galvanic isolation, but also bypass the Windows mixer. (ASIO just won't play nicely with my laptop...) So I think that qualifies as "make much better use of it"

Unfortunately I have had little chance to do anything other than install and set it up, but on a few test tracks it sounds good - can't crank it up though, so too early to make any gushing hifi statements! One minor panic when I thought I had the same "fan on all the time" problem on the laptop until I realised it was my wife's Dell where she had left it on a pile of magazines blocking the ventilation holes...

Any how - thanks Mark for letting me take it off your hands, it should be a big improvement (I hope) over the USB input as I can now try some hi res files, and gives me more options if I change DAC next year to the Rega which I am hoping to do.

[Reid Malenfant]

You are most welcome Alex Enjoy