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    Quote Originally Posted by Yomanze View Post
    Any joy?
    Hi Neil,

    I was going to update the thread today, thanks for the nudge lol

    Well, foobar offers the option to use the M2TECH kernel which I believe operates in the same fashion as the bypass you mentioned. Soundwise it's greatly improved detail and space so worthwhile having a play around. I've got about 500gb of files now on a WD passport but the XP drivers dont exist for it so I can't use it with the craptop (laptop). I'm going to stump up a few quid for a Windows 7 laptop from somewhere and see how that goes. I am loving the DAC though. My analogue side is still better but it has closed the gap some way.

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    Oliver,
    install this driver if Asio’s not an option in your playback software’s options.

    ASIO4ALL.
    http://www.asio4all.org/

    ASIO’s what you want, spent a big chunk of my life looking into and worrying about this stuff, and happened to have the Young as my main Dac,
    Thank me later.

    The Youngs an absolute class act, a gamechanger for its time and price bracket.
    For refernce, MASSIVLY better than Audiolabs MDac which at the time was the one to beat.

    Still loving mine.
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    Glad that the results are improving. Set up right computers / USB beat CD transports IMO.

    I agree with Gaz, have always gotten the best results with ASIO and WASAPI. ASIO4ALL well worth a try.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
    Oliver,
    install this driver if Asio’s not an option in your playback software’s options.

    ASIO4ALL.
    http://www.asio4all.org/

    ASIO’s what you want, spent a big chunk of my life looking into and worrying about this stuff, and happened to have the Young as my main Dac,
    Thank me later.

    The Youngs an absolute class act, a gamechanger for its time and price bracket.
    For refernce, MASSIVLY better that Audiolabs MDac which at the time was the one to beat.

    Still loving mine.
    Cheers Gaz & Neil, as soon as I get the new laptop I'll sort it out
    Last edited by Bigman80; 07-04-2018 at 17:19.

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    Bit of an update,

    After spending a week or two using a banger laptop, which constantly lost the drivers for the DAC, I decided to mount a disc version of Linux mint on my W10 laptop.

    After about an hour F#cking about with trying to burn an ISO to DVD (USB just wouldn't work) I managed to get it on.

    Using the Standard player and my USB, I couldn't get any sound out of the DAC. Realising there may be an "output" setting, I found it and set it to "M2TECH" and Voila!!! It works.

    I'm not sure how or why, but this sounds WAY better than when I used WXP on the banger laptop and I'm really quite shocked at the difference. I am so pleased the DAC didn't sell!!!

    Now, I don't have the option to run LM and W10 side by side so that will be the next avenue of investigation.


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    could partition the hdd and run with 2 os.
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    I'm gonna try that, Grant. I don't seem to have 24/96 playback capabilities?
    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    could partition the hdd and run with 2 os.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigman80 View Post
    I'm gonna try that, Grant. I don't seem to have 24/96 playback capabilities?
    might be the player. see if it can be set to upscale.
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    I'll have a look, might be because it's only a temp disc load?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigman80 View Post
    I'll have a look, might be because it's only a temp disc load?
    might be because its a disc os that its not doing it.
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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