Hi folks,
Three days ago, I bought a Mytek Digital Stereo 192 DSD-DAC, after a recent price drop. I have used it for a couple of days. It works ok in Linux (ubuntu & Fedora flavors), via USB 1.1 connection. I΄m using Audacious as player of flac files. I have couple of questions.
1. I have a choice of defining Mytek in Linux, in a stereo system, either as default / sysdefault USB audio default audio device or as a hardware device with all software conversions. Only in the latter case does it show the correct sampling freguency of the file played (44.1, 96 etc). In the case it is defined as default device, it sticks to 48 kHz, whatever the source flac may be. I΄ve perceived a very slight softening when played as hardware device with all software conversions. What does ¨software conversions¨mean here? Is the sound degraded in this case?
2. I΄ve read in the thread that a driver for linux supporting USB 2.0 has been developed, but when I downloaded the files to compile, it said in the ISSUES doc that the driver ¨does not work on kernel 3.12.x and up¨, but a workaround has been added. Anybody knows if it works on latest kernels (4.4.x) in case it compiles?
