Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

[JohnSwenson]

I am thinking of purchasing an HRT Music Streamer II to use with the
Enhanced Digital Output app.
One question I had was does will the USB port continue to provide
power as the HRT does not have a power supply.
Hopefully I posted this question correctly this is the first time in this blog.
Thanks in advance

For the HRT StreamerII line to work properly you need a USB2 hub. The hub can either be bus powered or externally powered, either way works fine. The Touch supplies plenty of power for the HRT devices, the reason you need a hub is that there is a bug in the Touch hardware which prevents it from running async with a full speed DAC (such as the HRTs), the USB2 hub talks high speed to the Touch and full speed to the DAC and thus circumvents the bug.

You CAN use an externally powered hub if you like, but it's not required.

John S.

[lake_eleven]

Unless you can hear any difference, suggest using the default (smallest) ones.

Tried defaut and 'Small' options. With default, tt status shows buffer of 20000. With 'Small', tt status shows buffer of 5000. I feel the 'Small' setting makes the sound a bit tight and more defined.

[lake_eleven]

I get very low volume playback from 24/96 files. Iam using HTR II+. Any ideas why?

[alcarp]

Was wondering if the problem of EDO into the USB of the NAD M51 DAC has been resolved?

[lake_eleven]

I get very low volume playback from 24/96 files using EDO 0.7. Iam using HTR II+. Any ideas why?

Any suggestions????

[jt25741]

Any suggestions????

Did you check to see if your digital output volume level is set to 100% Obvious one...but just checking.

[Triode]

Was wondering if the problem of EDO into the USB of the NAD M51 DAC has been resolved?

I don't think anyone with a NAD has tried the newer test kernels - please look at the experiments thread and try kernel #9 to see if this helps. Afraid we can't be any more specific than this without someone with a NAD trying it.

[lake_eleven]

Did you check to see if your digital output volume level is set to 100% Obvious one...but just checking.

The vol is set to max. The issue is only with 24/96 flacs.

[JohnSwenson]

The vol is set to max. The issue is only with 24/96 flacs.

24/96 flacs play back fine on my HRT StremerII (using a hub). The only thing I can think of is that you might have replay gain turned on and the 24/96 files have a low volume replay gain tag. You can turn off replay gain and see if that makes any difference. I think it's called volume adjustments in the audio settings area.

John S.

[Quad]

I just tried kernel #9 and it's not working yet.

According to NAD support, they will look at it. Here's what they told me:

We briefly tried this but had no success. Right now we are working on a major project and as soon as that is completed we plan to look at the Linux driver for M51.

As soon as I know more I will post here.