For several years the italian company m2tech has been offering their own solutions dedicated to both usbspdif conversion the popular hiface and its decoding into the analog domain. M2tech hiface 24bit192khz usb digital audio interface a. Apr 23, 2014 im aware of the m2tech debacle with mavericks, and i remember reading that the original hiface is affected by that, but the hiface 2 has always been driverless with mac os due to usb audio class 2 compliance. M2tech were caught off guard last year when the apple update to os 10. It depends on the product and the operating system in your computer. This outoftree driver is just to keep an history of the development and for poeple using kernels older than 3. Getting your m2tech hiface 1 working in maver icks 10. Get highest quality digital audio up to 192khz24bit spdif audio format available from your pc or mac very low jitter oscillators and proprietary drivers compact size 2x2. They no longer follow this procedure for their newer and latest products with mac os, usb support is builtin and should be universal it should just work. It almost works as the old one and we are planning to add new features like integer mode.
No drivers are necessary with either mac and linux computers, while a single. The hiface is primarily designed to use kernel streaming under windows, regardless of version. With the battery power to the hiface switched on, i rebooted the laptop, started foobarjplay, and sat back to listen. Jan 04, 2011 its all truethe driver is a piece of crap in every way. M2tech usa ships only within the usa if a local retailer cannot be found. Compact size and ease of use m2tech hiface features a very compact size and can be directly or using an accessory usb aa adapter, not supplied with hiface connected to a high speed usb 2.
Heres my problem, i have a dac that was using an m2tech driver written for mac os yosemite. In short, both the hiface 2 and hiface evo surprised, with the hiface evo allowing my macbook air to better an esoteric sa50 cd transport. Very low jitter oscillators, asynchronous transfer on usb. Did m2tecn or metrum back then promised their drivers to be maverick ready. I f maverick makes former drivers by design incompatible, their designers are to blame, and indirectly a calculated risk for those who accepts the consequences of teh new os by. With few clicks to install the drivers and make the setup for the right app, it was possible to extract from the usb port of any desktop pc, notebook and net book, a digital signal at the sampling frequencies of 44. I have something strange when using xtream mode in jplay. Amarula solutions ready mavericks driver for m2tech hiface mk1. For just 115 base model plus some software your computer can become a highend music server offering up to 24 bit 192 khz play out. Jul 23, 20 the windows version of this driver was developed by m2tech.
View and download m2tech hiface dac user manual online. All m2tech products are designed, engineered and manufactured in italy. For some time now you could turn to m2tech or their local representative for a hiface async usb to spdif interface. Question for m2tech hiface evo owner jplay jplay hiend. Amarula solutions ready mavericks driver for m2tech hiface mk1 compared to the octave we improved the max sampling rate to khz. M2 tech hiface two hiend sspdif output interface with rca. I use it with evo clock and battery, and sound is really good. Dynamics were impressively huge, the soundstage exceedingly wide, and. This affected not just those using the dongle usbspdif converter but also dacs that deployed m2tech s oem usb module. The following products always need a driver, irrespective of the operating system.
A driver is still necessary for windows computers, which enables for ds, ks, wasapi and asio mode. Please note that a driver is required for linux also. Metrum acoustics drop m2tech oem, announce new usb module. Roon sees the m2tech, lets me name it, configure it as a new zone, but will only play successfully. Basically all you need to do is compiling its drivers, and execute it on boot. Its up to the customer to ensure that the manual being consulted is the latest version. Paolo fresu has his music inside him, so he has great expectations for a hifi system. May 14, 2014 amarula solutions ready mavericks driver for m2tech hiface mk1 by john h. This time we have a look at their hiface evo dd converter and certain addons that improve its sound. The m2tech hiface dac is compact in size and can be directly or using an accessory usb aa adapter, not supplied with hiface connected to a high speed usb 2. If you plug in the m2tech hiface after the box completely boots up, it panics as soon as an application opens the device.
Although m2tech has undertaken the task to develop a new driver that would work with mavericks, after several months with no news it was too risky to wait even longer. The trouble now is that the current hiface xp driver, for both the hiface and hiface evo, does not seem to support plain asio, which is odd. On linux, you plug it in, select the output device and it works. Compact size and ease of use m2tech hiface can be directly or using an accessory usb aa adapter, not supplied with hiface connected to a high speed usb 2. Mk1 boxed m2tech hiface evo usb to spdif converter plus the. Mk1 boxed m2tech hiface evo usb to spdif converter plus. The driver for hiface, hiface evo, young and vaughan is not currently compatible with the new operating system mavericks osx 10. Thats the long way of saying that your computer will pass a. Well guys, since some of you wanted to use the hiface 1 on raspyfi, heres how to get it working. M2tech supplies proprietary drivers for the device since it does not support the usual plug and play usb audio device protocol.
The sound quality with the hiface is a significant improvement over the. Hiface evo two media converter pdf manual download. Roon with m2tech hiface 2 solved, firmware update support. I can get foobar to work with asio4all, but that has a peculiar effect on the.
M2tech evo set part one hiface evo interface and evo dac. Phono stage preamps, digital to analog converters, power amps and ad conversion. Configure your linux box to load hiface module every time you boot your pc. The m2tech hiface uses a proprietary driver to interact directly with a player in kernel streaming mode at a low level of cpu loading. To avoid blue screens, user should disable the exclusive access to the m2tech device in use. I would go with the latterif previous unit got fried, good chance the driver didnt make it either.
The hiface two is a high valueformoney ratio digitaltodigital converter to turn your computer into the main audio source for every hifi system provided with a digital input. This driver is available in mainline linux since v3. In fact, youll find no mac drivers on the m2tech website for the hiface 2 but there are drivers for the original hiface except of. Then came m2tech with a small, budget, practical usb pendrive. We are working on a solution but for now, it is recommended not to update to 10. Download the driver setup file for m2tech hiface dac driver from the location below. Thanks to two quartz precision oscillators used on m2tech hiface, clock source. Metrum acoustics recently decided to develop a new usb interface. Hi, i just bought an m2tech hiface evo and connect to my computer today. Apr 05, 2014 since the launch of the mavericks os, however, the driver supplied by m2tech was instantly outdated. The new power supply might improve jitter behaviour, the driver circuit and some other tweeks should prevent clicks in between tracks.
I have sent a kernel stack trace several times to m2tech hiface to. M2tech usa will only ship within the usa where a local retailer is not present within the buyers state andor surrounding states. The usb stream enters through a transceiver chip usb3318 clocked at mhz, while two different crystal oscillators are used for the clock circuit, one at 24. Dec 24, 2010 cant get the m2tech hiface drivers to download every time i go to the hiface website and attempt to download the drivers to my mac the only thing that downloads is the installer package itself, not the actual drivers. M2tech hiface mac drivers audiogon discussion forum.
Listening, round one after selecting the m2tech hiface dac in both the macbook pros system preferences sound panel and audio midi window, i chose, as my preferred player, amarra 2. Maybe anyone need this to install the hiface1 driver 1. Compact size, ease of use and very high performance. I was very pleased to see that the hiface two will work with linux and mac systems without a driver.
Its all truethe driver is a piece of crap in every way. It does so without any other drivers and allows for audio data to reach the peripheral easily and without any undesired changes to the data stream. Either the mac already has the driver installed, or it lost the driver during the thunderstorm. Amarula solutions ready mavericks driver for m2tech hiface mk1 by john h.
Jul 30, 20 listening, round one after selecting the m2tech hiface dac in both the macbook pros system preferences sound panel and audio midi window, i chose, as my preferred player, amarra 2. Using an oldish computerlaptop for the music server, running something like ubuntu, is a lowcost way to get into computer audio, and can produce very reasonable results. No longer is this a dongle hanging from the side of the computer, the evo is compact stand alone component positively bristling with connectors, one will be hard pressed to find a digital input the evo cant connect to. Mar 03, 2020 although m2tech has undertaken the task to develop a new driver that would work with mavericks, after several months with no news it was too risky to wait even longer. Im aware of the m2tech debacle with mavericks, and i remember reading that the original hiface is affected by that, but the hiface 2 has always been driverless with mac os due to usb audio class 2 compliance. I have sent a kernel stack trace several times to m2tech hiface to have them debug and fix the issue nothing. This ensures low cpu utilization even at high bit depth and sampling rates and allows for a highly optimized driver. I have another computer with m2tech hiface 2, and i dont have this problem. So you have to tell linux to load hiface module every time you start your pc. To date, the very best musical results that ive had from pc based audio have been via an old hp laptop, running xp, foobar and asio to a hiface usb converter. Getting your m2tech hiface 1 working in mavericks 10.
However, we know that the device m2tech oem it is programmed now has many functions and therefore chosen by us. My hiface twohiface dac doesnt work well with my mac. Review m2tech hiface evo usb to spdif output interface. M2tech reserves the right to change or modify the information any time, without prior advice. M2tech usa sales referrals only, advanced highresolution pc audio systems and streaming devices. Trying to use server as another zone, family room, server has m2tech hiface 2 usb to spdif to a home theater receiver via digital coax. The hiface two is a total redesign of the hiface, now using a linear in stead of switch mode power supply and an improved spdif driver circuit. I have to wait 26 seconds each time i move to another track.
Roon sees the m2tech, lets me name it, configure it as a new zone, but will only play successfully for a few seconds, then i get. Question for m2tech hiface evo owner posted in jplay. Jan 19, 2014 highest quality digital audio up to 192khz24bit spdif audio format available from your pc, mac or linux computer. M2tech recently released a higher end version of the hiface usb spdif converter called the hiface evo. Since the launch of the mavericks os, however, the driver supplied by m2tech was instantly outdated. Hi, we have done the driver for linux and two weeks ago we have decided to write the driver for maverick. May 17, 2014 question for m2tech hiface evo owner posted in jplay. If you use a hiface with an external 5 volt supply, it is strongly recommended to make sure that you power the hiface up before turning on the computer, and turn off the computer, before powering down the hiface. Amarula solutions ready mavericks driver for m2tech hiface. M2tech hiface dac driver by admin march 17, 2020 you have to focus picturing the performer in front of you to move the sound slightly forward in your head. But we have to wait for their reply first and let you know when answers are coming back. Compared to the octave we improved the max sampling rate to khz. Dec, 2015 windows 10 and hiface evo 1 posted in computer audio.
The hiface two is based on the well known xmos solution for usb to spdif conversion. M2tech was not able to certify any new drivers after mavericks. View and download m2tech hiface evo two user manual online. Customers owning the products above are adviced that no driver is presently available for their product. I use my mac mini as a music server and htpc and the hiface is unusable for videos netflix, hulu, youtube, etc. The hiface 2 and hiface evo are two of many recently developed audio interfaces that convert an usb input signal to spdif output sampling the incoming signal at rates from 44. Every time i go to the hiface website and attempt to download the drivers to my mac the only thing that downloads is the installer package itself. Highest quality digital audio up to 192khz24bit spdif audio format available from your pc, mac or linux computer. Obviously at the time, m2tech chose to write very specific mac os usb drivers for their own products. A very high electric and mechanical performance rca gold connector provides an output signal, ready to be connected to a hiend system. For windows computers, a driver is still necessary to enable ds, ks, wasapi and asio mode. I have a hifacehiface evoyoungvaughan, may i use the driver for hiface. Question for m2tech hiface evo owner jplay jplay hi.
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