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Can anyone help me out with this, please? The Zero looks like the one I want but reliability issues are worrying me. Going to go for the OPA2604 version as I've read about the fake OPA627s. I can always get some at a later date if I want to tinker. Does anyone have any experience with the 2009 version? I trust people's opinions here, it would be extremely helpful.

Hi all, Pretty much narrowed down my choice of DACs to two, would it be possible to get people's opinions on these? If it's not too much trouble? I'm using a Windows PC running Vista (but I'd also like the option of using it with a Mac, after recent troubles, (see my post in the Software forum for more details), it's going to be feeding into a PrimaLuna Prologue 2 amplifier, Kef 104 Reference speakers. Would like a headphone amp also and or a pre-amp to control volume into my PrimaLuna as I find I have to turn the PrimaLuna up quite high at the moment, but these aren't absolutely essential. One specific question realated to the above, do the volume controls on these effect the DAC output or just the headphone output? Want USB input. 24/192. Not sure what else to say, anymore info you need just ask. My choices so far are: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AUNE-HIFIDIY-NET-Mini-USB-DAC-Headphone-Amp-MK2-SE_W0QQitemZ350241031685QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_AudioTVElectronics_HomeAudioHiFi_Amplifiers?hash=item518bfe0605 or http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ZERO-Tianyun-24-192-DAC-Headphone-Amp-OPA627-USB_W0QQitemZ350241050720QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_AudioTVElectronics_HomeAudioHiFi_Amplifiers?hash=item518bfe5060 Anyone have any experience of these?? Any problems with Vista, will they mesh with a valve amp nicely, you know the sort of stuff. I am open to other suggestions in the same sort of price range, if people agree I've made the wrong choices, but really I'm looking for info on these two. I know how knowledgable you lot are from trawling the forums yesterday, so any help would really be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Barry.

For anyone who may be interested, I have sorted my problem. Got up this morning and thought "Right let's sort this" and re-installed Vista from scratch, then re-installed drivers for the SB Live (I had tried the drivers previously and it made no difference) and all is fine (fingers crossed, probably jinxed myself now), so god knows exactly what it was, gonna re-install programs one by one checking as I go, but for now it's sorted. Windows eh? Such fun and games. Thanks Keith for your help.

Good idea Keith, thanks for the quick reply, you can get so focused on a problem, that the obvious just doesn't occur to you sometimes, trying it now, I'll tell you how it goes. Thanks mate. Edit: That appears to be working my new lifelong friend , if that works why doesn't wasapi? Is kernel streaming the same as wasabi under Vista, the Windows Mixer is different in Vista isn't it? Am I going to still have to work out what is wrong with wasabi? Or can I stick with this? Edit 2: Surely this should be the other way around? wasapi is made for vista so shouldn't kernel streaming be the buggy one? Or is this just Vista bugs still.

Hi everyone, been really enjoying the site, some lovely stuff on here, was wondering if you could help me with a problem, I'm pretty sure it must be answered here somewhere but I've been working on it for about three hours and I think I have forum/google blindness, so if there is an answer here just point me in the right direction, thanks. Been trying to set Foobar to play with wasapi and the playback pops/crackles (not faulty lead type of crackles, but it doesn't really sound like skipping either) when i use it. Tried Xplay and it's the same. It's fine when I don't use it on both players. This is happening on every flac file I play. It probably happens on others too but I don't have MP3s, I'm presuming (I know I shouldn't though) it's not a problem with flacs though. I'm using a Sound Blaster 24bit Live External soundcard, it's a bit old so I'm thinking it could be that. Files I've tried to play are 24/96, 16/44, DTS Tried various Default Formats in the Sound panel. Tried just about every option in the Output preferences of Foobar, buffer, output data format and no joy. I was thinking at first that I was trying to output 24/96 when my card couldn't handle it, but it shouldn't do it on 16/44s if that was the case. I want to get a DAC which is the reason I'm trying to get wasapi working. (I have a couple of preferences which I may ask advice on later if no-one minds). I've vary probably forgotten some things I've tried if I have I'm sorry, but I think I may be going a bit mad because of this. If anyone could help me I would be eternally grateful, or at least point me in the right direction. From the Sound card I'm going into Prima Luna Prologue 2, with relatively new valves, and CDs/Vinyl are playing fine. Again wonderful site, given me some great ideas for DACs. Really sorry if this is a crappy newbie question, going to go and Llisten to Music From the Body now to cheer myself up. DXDIAG below System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 1/8/2010, 20:29:50 Machine name: BOO909-PC Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.090803-2339) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. System Model: EP35-DS3P BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG Processor: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz Memory: 2046MB RAM Page File: 1831MB used, 2502MB available Windows Dir: C:Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 11 DX Setup Parameters: Not found DxDiag Version: 7.00.6002.18107 32bit Unicode DxDiag Notes ------------ Display Tab 1: No problems found. Sound Tab 1: No problems found. Sound Tab 2: No problems found. Sound Tab 3: No problems found. Input Tab: No problems found.