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USER MANUAL
REV. 1.0 – 11/2010
Page 1: ...M2TECH HIFACE 192KHZ 24BIT DIGITAL AUDIO INTERFACE USER MANUAL REV 1 0 11 2010...
Page 2: ...netic Field Immunity Test and Electrostatic Discharges ESD Recycling The label above printed on the product case indicates that the product when no more usable can t be treated as generic garbage but...
Page 3: ...ion of digital audio interfaces in computers Please visit M2Tech website www m2tech biz to find extensive literature about this topic hiFace overcomes all the limits of usual USB to audio interfaces b...
Page 4: ...uring the computer to use hiFace 14 4 1 Configuring a PC with Windows XP 14 4 1 1 Configuring for Direct Sound with Windows XP 14 4 1 2 Configuring for Kernel Streaming with Windows XP 15 4 1 3 Using...
Page 5: ...B 2 0 port of a PC or Mac or use an USB extender A male to A female In the latter the extender must be compliant with USB 2 0 an less than 4m otherwise the bus performance will decrease and the correc...
Page 6: ...he host socket If straight insertion is difficult or when in need of avoiding straight insertion an USB 2 0 extender cable A male to A female can be used Please avoid using extenders more than 4m to a...
Page 7: ...Windows drivers are contained in zip files Mac drivers are contained in dmg files 3 2 Installing the driver on a Windows based PC Create a temporary folder in the hard disk of your computer you can e...
Page 8: ...8 M2Tech www m2tech biz Click on the button to proceed A window appears as shown in figure 3 Figure 3 Choose automatic installation as recommended and proceed to next step Indicate the folder where yo...
Page 9: ...e and the guided installation procedure may slightly vary from XP to Vista to Windows 7 3 2 2 Manual installation Sometimes it s necessary or advisable to install the driver manually The installation...
Page 10: ...Mac Double click on the zip file to open it It contains a single dmg file Extract it from the zip and double click on it to open it It only contains a pkg file Double click on it to start driver insta...
Page 11: ...e asked to type in the administrator password After doing that the installation process will continue and you ll be asked for a confirmation to continue the process up to the computer restart Click on...
Page 12: ...installed 3 4 1 Uninstalling the driver on a Windows based PC after installation with setup32 exe or setup64 exe Go to the control panel and launch the Application Installation utility Look for the h...
Page 13: ...ch www m2tech biz Figure 10 Right click to access the available actions Select Uninstall 3 4 3 Uninstalling the driver on a Mac Open a console then type the following commands sudo mv System Library E...
Page 14: ...iTunes or for Internet streaming while the latter can be chosen for better performance with players which can operate in Kernel Streaming mode such as FooBar Winamp Monkey Media JRiver 4 1 1 Configuri...
Page 15: ...ed in the specific player you choose to use For example when using FooBar with hiFace connected to the PC go to the File Preferences Playback Output tab and select KS hiFace as output device Other pla...
Page 16: ...aming KS can be chosen for better performance with players which can operate in Kernel Streaming mode such as FooBar Winamp Monkey Media JRiver WASAPI Windows Audio Standard API is a standard interfac...
Page 17: ...tab and select KS hiFace as output device Other players will require different settings see section 5 4 2 3 Configuring for WASAPI with Windows Vista or Windows 7 As happens with Kernel Streaming WASA...
Page 18: ...he DLL Extract it from the zip and copy to the Components folder Then restart FooBar go to the File Preferences Playback Output window and set parameters as in figure 14 Figure 14 5 2 Winamp and Media...
Page 19: ...NOVEMBER 2010 Copyright 2010 M2Tech Snc di Manunta Marino 19 M2Tech www m2tech biz Figure 15 Go to Plug in Output and select Kernel Streaming Output Then click on Configure button Choose HIFACE Kernel...
Page 20: ...download the DLL for WASAPI from the FooBar2000 website and install it in the Components sub folder inside FooBar2000 main folder in your hard disk The DLL can be found at http www foobar2000 org comp...
Page 21: ...quipment the sampling frequency indication always remains on 48kHz even if the DAC is correctly converting 44 1 96 or 192kHz bitstreams User shouldn t be fooled by this indication and refer to the sam...
Page 22: ...ch biz 8 Technical Specifications Sampling frequencies 44 1 48 88 2 96 176 4 192kHz Resolution 16 to 24 bits USB 2 0 high speed Internal clock precision 10ppm 0 to 60 C 2ppm typical 25 C S PDIF output...
