Peter,

Will there be a plugin to use with video/radio/streaming anytime in the near future, built by you??

Yes! And what about a PCIe to PCI adapter?
You already tried it?
Makes a seperate Power supply for the PCI card possible..

I found a PCI to USB2 card with NEC chip here for 10 Euro: http://www.vedt.nl/cgi-bin/FS?longshine&Longshine+is+VET+met+DT&Top&shop&Content

And guess what? It works!

So USB from AMD-chipset: No
PCIe to USB3 (Nec) : No
PCI to USB2 (Via) : Yes but distorted.
PCI to USB2 (Nec) : YES!

And it really sounds better then anything before.
With the hiFace from the laptop it did not really sound convincing in the end.
From AMD-htpc there is a huge improvement.
The htpc is W7/tweaked and seperate USBcontroller, laptop is Vista, not tweeked...

Here are the pictures, DAC was at 16/44.
Same error happens with other sampleratesettings.

Peter,

It's only with engine #3, I can not use engine #4 with optical from the motherboard.
I'll try to make a screencopy when the children finished watching tv ( = monitor of htpc).
It happens right after I hit play.
I tried some different settings but no effect.
After this error I get a second one with the numbers of bitrate, channels etc.

Hi Peter,
Since the hiFace does not work I tried optical out again.
It tests good in the soundproperties, but when I choose this as output in XXHE I get message - 2004287456.
Is there something I can do to prevent this and play music again?

Gerard.

Hi Ivo,

I received my PCIe to USB3 card (Freecom) yesterday and now the Hiface installs properly on my AMD (SB700).
But no sound! In sounddevices the hiFace shows, but test does not work and samplerates are not shown.

XXHE says in engine #4: 'Device allocated, but can not play...' in engine #3: '... not supported'.

I sent an email to Marco and he replied today that he will send it to his programmer.

If you see how much work they put in Mac-support I'm sure they will solve this problem too!

Received my ASRock PCIe to USB 3 card yesterday and after installing, updating the bios and finding new drivers still not working.
So I read the nice small box and it says it only works with ASRock mobo's.
No information about this on the internet or the supplier....
So now I'll try a sharkoon. Good thing is there are a lot of different brands now, although with the same NEC-chip.

About the upgrades by JKeny better read what he has to say on Headfi and diyaudio.
It seems he does not like the sound of I2S-out anymore. Still a better (battery) powersupply can be nice to try.

I'll report again when I have news.

Marcin,

I have to wait for the card to arrive this week...
Because I only have one slot available it had to be pci-e.
Since USB pcie cards are very rare the prices are high, 50 euro for a Belkin and then it's not real pci-e but pci converted to pci-e.
That's why I decided for a USB3-card for 20 euro. (Alternative would be to buy a new mobo).
I read the controllers on these cards are much better then the mobo-chipsets like the amd-southbridge.
So I hope it will work and sound good.
You make me already very happy with your message that pci sounds better already!
When I have it working I'll report again!

Finally, my HiFace is working super too!
The higher buffervalue (2025) makes XXHighEnd work flawlessly on the laptop.
I was not really convinced untill I replaced the rca-to-bnc adapter with a real bnc-plug on the spdif-wire.
Now the BNC-hiFace connects through bnc with Belden 1505 wire to BNC to DAC.
It is a big  difference, before I was missing the depth which is now back together with the detailed highs.
And perfect PRAT!
I guess an adapter close to the source is worse what you can do.

Now I'll wait to see if the ASrock pcie-to-usb3.0 will make the AMD-htpc work too.

Btw, listening to special on y9-8c, sounds better then never before!

Hi Boleary, Peter,

It's to cold to go to the zoo here, so I went to my work.
Not really in the right mood to give you a serious answer too...

My hiFace arrived two days ago. First on the HTPC, but this freezes because of a AMD SB700 chipset.
Then on the centrino laptop it works (special mode) , sounds impressive / strange like more upfront and sounds appearing unexpectedly like in real live.
Also no noise at all like I got from mobo-spdif before.
Sometimes music stops/drops out for a second. Second album don't start. Reboot PC then first song ok, second in fast-motion.
Then messages about everything, like DAC endpoint, DAC samplerate, etc...
(Laptop is not tweaked to death yet, too )

So we really have to wait for new drivers to get happy!
(On Head-fi there is a thread with up to date answers)

No not done yet, are you ever done?

But it is not the sibilance, it's more the aaaaa, eeeee, and iiiiiiii!!
Like a nylon string starts to sound like a metal one.
I have no musical education, so difficult to explain!

The first column is the samplerate, the other 7 columns are the 7 settings  I can do in the software.
Like at 44 kHz and a setting of 3.6 ms the display says this is 88 samples.
If this is true I dont know.

BTW. Apart from the one complaint it sounds super!

Well 9y8 is really stable, no cpu-problems.
Soundwise it's the same like before.
Like a resonance somewhere between 2 and 8 kHz which especially vibrates in high female voices.
I think now it's not really in the transients but more in the vowels (klinkers) and long notes of violins and brass.
Maybe its a cone breakup of my metal cones...
Hope you can find something Peter!

Hi Boleary,

One way I'm glad you confirm my problem...
I hoped to receive my Hiface yesterday, but somewhere a delay happened.
With the Hiface at least we're sure it's not the jitter that gives us the jitters.

The 88 means that for the terratec 88 samples are used in the buffer which is an equivalent of 3.6 milliseconds.
If one sample has 2 bytes of 8 bits and two channels then I guess the buffersize is 2*2*8*88 = 2816 but I'm not sure of that, let alone if this can be handled the right way, and what setting would be best.

I hoped to get some quidance, because I really want the special-mode sound back that I (we) had with 9y-5-6!
Maybe 9y-8 can do the trick, gonna try that now.