What would be a good portable Dac/Amp to use with my HD6xx and Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone?
I am new to this hobby. I purchased a HD6XX and plan to use it with my Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone, that has a 3.5mm jack. I was wondering if I needed a portable dac/amp or just a portable amp and if so what would one recommend? Any assistance one could provide, would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Haz
Mar 7, 2024
Yulong do not seem very interested in fixing it, either, by which I mean they basically told another customer affected by the issue to just deal with it:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=84743.msg586223#msg586223
Their suggestion to use WASAPI instead is kind of a big "fuck you", too, as ASIO is the only option that will let you play both PCM and DSD content natively from a library without having to manually change options every time you want to switch between the formats, or converting one on the fly to the other and making it no-longer bit-perfect. If I was going to transcode my SACDs into PCM as I listen, I wouldn't have bought a US$1300 DAC. I bought this one, because it's supposed to support ASIO and let me pump out anything I want in native format. If your whole library is PCM, you can use WASAPI and not miss out on anything, but if you want to use this to play back both, you might want to drop Yulong a line and ask them why they think playback constantly stopping working is acceptable behaviour for a supposedly high end Hi-Fi component...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yulong-Audio/326982077398065
Feel free to forward me any additional supplementary information at nelson.wu@massdrop.com.
Talked to Yulong yesterday, and he suggests to try the new driver for DA8 and see if the problem persists. In the meantime, he's going to have their engineers look into the problem described in the thread. Hopefully we can find a solution to resolve this problem.
I'll be sure to let Yulong know about this. They also want me to let you know that they are on it :)
I'll update here if I get any news from Yulong.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=84743.msg579111#msg579111 "I can't see how to work around this cleanly.
We only set the format if the device returns success from kAsioGetIoFormat and the format it returns doesn't match the format we're trying to play.
In this case, it must return kASIODSDFormat and we're trying to play kASIOPCMFormat.
When we call kAsioSetIoFormat with kASIOPCMFormat, it seems to fail.
Could you write to Yulong? Send them a link to this thread, and feel free to share my contact information (matt at jriver [dot] com) -- we'll do whatever we can to help.
Thanks."
Although I should note that it was directly after this that the other user with the same issue did in fact email Yulong as requested, but only got the WASAPI advice as a result; no statement that they'd look into it, or even acknowledgement that it was a problem. :c
Just recently the same dev restated his offer to work with Yulong to resolve this, and linked back to the above post. I guess Yulong don't wany any help? :\
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=84743.msg589005#msg589005 "I haven't heard anything from Yulong.
Like I said above, I'm happy to help if they ask: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=84743.msg579111#msg579111"