Help Please With My New DAC

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Atlplasma

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Help Please With My New DAC
« on: 28 Jun 2009, 05:13 pm »
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction on this one.

I bought a Gigawork 24/192 upsampling DAC off ebay from a vendor in Hong Kong. My goal is to convert my first generation Mac Mini into a music server.

I hooked the unit up to the Mini via USB and ran an RCA connection to my Yamaha integrated. No output.

I checked the Sound setting in System Preferences and everything seemed okay (USB codec is visibile and USB out seems to be selected). But still no sound.

I tried making the connection over Optical but no dice.

I removed the USB upsampling card and set the jumpers to not upsample and tried the connections again. Still no sound. (The Mini internal speaker does play though.)

I changed over to my Powerbook and tried again. Same results.

Suggestions?

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Re: Help Please With My New DAC
« Reply #1 on: 28 Jun 2009, 05:15 pm »
make sure the settings are correct like you first did and restart the computer.  I've found that the computer doesn't like when I unplug the USB cable then plug it back in.  When I restart, it's fine.

Worth a try

Rashiki

Re: Help Please With My New DAC
« Reply #2 on: 28 Jun 2009, 05:21 pm »
You need to go to the "Audio MIDI Setup" app under Applications/Utilities and select the DAC as your default output.

 -Rob

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Re: Help Please With My New DAC
« Reply #3 on: 28 Jun 2009, 05:24 pm »

Atlplasma

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Re: Help Please With My New DAC
« Reply #4 on: 28 Jun 2009, 05:51 pm »
I went to the Midi utility and now have music.  :thumb:

Thanks for the quick (and effective) replies.

Steve

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Re: Help Please With My New DAC
« Reply #5 on: 3 Jul 2009, 12:28 pm »
I recommend if you're going to switch the Audio Midi settings much, to get the SoundSource menu bar extra.