Tricone

Thanks for the education and suggestions. I ended up purchasing the Bel Canto mLink, which happened to be on sale. Also purchased a set of Black Cat Silverstar! cables (USB and coax) to pair with. Happy to say it's working fine and dandy, but now I'm already looking to upgrade my DAC! DSD, eh? It's a slippery slope . . .

May I ask why you are selling it so soon? (Ooops . . . I guess I went ahead and did ask)!

Thanks to both of you on your replies. Right before I read them, I did reread a review of the Rega DAC, and did notice the limitations to its USB input. I took both of your suggestions, and went on the internet, reading about both the Musical Fidelity V-Link and the Bel Canto m-Link and u-Link converters. It looks like the Musical Fidelity V-Link still can be had on Amazon. The Bel Canto m-Link is on sale at another site for the same price as the MF V-Link. Now, how to choose one over the other? I notice that the outputs are different . . . the MF output has a balanced XLR? and coaxial terminated with RCA, while the m-Link has a coax output with BNC connector (but ships with a BNC/RCA adapter). I'm much more familiar with digital coax RCA-terminated cables, but haven't seen any BNC-terminated ones. I assume the latter is easy to find. Besides the output cable terminations, are there any differences in the units? Both seem to get good reviews.

I wasn't sure if this should be posted in the DAC subforum, or here in Software. Obviously, I started with the latter. Here goes . . I'm very new to CA, having just downloaded Audirvana Plus last night. I also purchased a few hi-res files from HDTracks. My current system is a work in progress, and consists of: Late-2013 iMac i7 --> Rega DAC (via USB) --> Linear Technology Incline speakers (via Rega's analog output) My first "audition" with a few FLACs that I had was eye-opening. I decided to purchase a couple of hi-res 192K music albums and see what they sound like. When I loaded a particular song into Audirvana's Playlist, I was expecting my Rega DAC to "recognize" that the song was at a higher resolution. However, the indicator light on the Rega's front panel remained at 44.1-48K. (I was expecting it to change to 192K). There is no selector on the Rega where one can manually change toggle the resolution. I then opened Audirvana's manual, along with the Preferences. In Preferences, I found that my Preferred Audio Device was "USB Audio DAC", and under Active Audio Device -> USB Audio DAC, only 44.1 and 48 where lit green, with the other higher res bit rates grayed-out. Surprisingly, when I toggled the Preferred Audio Device to "Built-In Output", then everything from 44.1 to 96 turned green! Sooo . . how do I "tell" the software that my hardware DAC is capable of a 192K resolution?