Experience with E-MU 0404 USB DAC?

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sjd

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Experience with E-MU 0404 USB DAC?
« on: 26 Apr 2008, 05:57 pm »
Seeing very few reviews, mixed at that.  This unit uses AKM DAC, so this piques my interest.  Has anyone tried it?  TiA!  :D

andy_c

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Re: Experience with E-MU 0404 USB DAC?
« Reply #1 on: 26 Apr 2008, 07:19 pm »
Seeing very few reviews, mixed at that.  This unit uses AKM DAC, so this piques my interest.  Has anyone tried it?  TiA!  :D

I've been using one for a while - but am not using the analog outs.  I made a post about my experiences with it here http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=pcaudio&n=28294.  I've been happy with the sound in general.  And Jriver media center did fix the problems I listed in that post.

With my laptop, I see about 45 percent CPU usage when music is playing.  If I try to do things such as surfing the web on that computer while music is playing, I get glitches in the sound.

Overall I'm pretty happy, but I may yet have my SB2 repaired and go back to that.