So the M-DAC remote will switch between digital and analogue inputs and control the volume of both?
Try the next release of the software, coming the end of this week and there's a good chance it should resolve the issue.
I am using MDAC with HD800 and I'm totally delighted with its performance as a headphone amp. Ticks all the boxes, job done. Better than my previous Graham Slee headphone amp anyway, which was a great amp in itself.I will definitely try the internal amplifier when I get my Sennheiser HD 800 -- it would be truly superb if I didn't have to resort to my external unit.
When playing music from my PC, every now and then, it sounds like an artifact of sound gets dragged along with the rest of playback, which ruins the song. It's easily fixed, you just move the seek bar anywhere and it's gone but it shouldn't happen in the first place. Sometimes songs just refuse to play or "hang" in the second-second of playback; you have to pick another album and then head back to make it restart.
I've tried every buffer length under the sun and am using Wasapi.
I've passed both bit prefect playback tests and I use usb.
Has anyone experienced this and do they have any suggestions please?
Is there an official site / place where firmware updates for the M-MDAC are published? I don't see anything like that on Audiolab's website.
When playing music from my PC, every now and then, it sounds like an artifact of sound gets dragged along with the rest of playback, which ruins the song. It's easily fixed, you just move the seek bar anywhere and it's gone but it shouldn't happen in the first place. Sometimes songs just refuse to play or "hang" in the second-second of playback; you have to pick another album and then head back to make it restart.
I've tried every buffer length under the sun and am using Wasapi.
I've passed both bit prefect playback tests and I use usb.
Has anyone experienced this and do they have any suggestions please?
I've had these types of issues with the M-DAC using Wasapi in foobar on a 64 bit Windows 7 laptop, it doesn't seem to be an issue with other players I've tried, nor has it been an issue with other DAC's in foobar. Switching to ASIO4All and using ASIO in foobar seemed to solve the issues when using the M-DAC.
This in part prompted me to try J River Media Center which, once I got set up properly, I've had no issues with and I've quite fallen for it. It's seems to be a nice cross of the ease of use of iTunes with the tweakability of foobar.
No hi res as yet though if that's important.
Dudes, no wish to be contrary here but...
Why not just use itunes? Plug and play as they say,
No shagging about with setting loads of faff stuff, and sounds as good as the rest as it's bit perfect and therefore has to.
No hi res as yet though if that's important.
??? iTunes handles high-res - it just doesn't auto-switch between different sample/bit rates unless you use a 3rd party add-on like Bitperfect (if you're using a Mac).
Carlos - no problem obtaining lock.
I have one issue that on the odd occasion the MDAC reads "inactive" , and this is where I have to unplug USB cable from laptop and re-insert.
Not had to power off for a long time.
I'm not convinced that its anything to do with the MDAC but problems with my Laptop/OS . I've ran a USB port monitor , but as yet have not made head or tail of the data on first look.
The problem is not frequent enough for me to worry about it yet. I will get round to investigating maybe. My laptop is the household laptop which has Mcafee ISP software and all the other apps. I ran MSConfig a few weeks back which made a huge impact on performance, but still did not stop the "inactive" message incident. Happens maybe 1 in 3 times . As mentioned quickly rectified by re-plugging USB cable.