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Driver installation (Windows® operating systems only)
* For Windows
®
operating systems a USB driver (supplied on CD) has to be installed.
Insert the included CD into the drive of you PC and follow the instructions.
Complete the installation by restarting the computer.
After installing the driver, some settings have to be checked/done.
For example - Windows 7
®
operating system:
Control Panel
Hardware and Sound
Sound
Playback:
select Speaker/Project DAC Box DS USB 2.0 Audio Out
Properties
Supported formats: make sure nothing is assigned
Level
Sound: setting must be 100
Enhancements: disable all enhancements
Advanced
Default Format: set to studio quality 24/192
Using Windows 8
®
, the driver has to be installed in Windows 7
®
compatibility mode.
DSD playback
Up to now DSD playback on a computer using a Windows
®
operating system is only reliably possible with
the PC software player Foobar2000.
Nevertheless, this player has to be prepared, out of the box it is not capable to play DSD. Please read the
following instructions how to prepare the player.
You will need to download the following software and drivers from the internet:
The software player Foobar2000
http://www.foobar2000.org/download
The Foobar2000 for ASIO playback
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_out_asio
The Foobar2000 for SACD playback
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/files/foo_input_sacd/
.
Unzip the enclosed files and store into a folder of your choice.
The actual Windows
®
USB driver comes with the unit on CD. Store all files from the CD on your computer
into a folder of your choice.
Please install the USB driver first. To do that, in the folder, where you stored the files to, start the installation
by double clicking on Setup.exe. Follow the instructions of the installation program.
Please install Foobar2000 now by double clicking on the downloaded file. Please start Foobar2000 after that.
