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New USB DAC and USB to SPDIF in/out
We have a new product ready for you 🙂 This is a small DAC Sabre ES9023 DAC powered by USB bus and with many useful additional features:
- Two USB to analog outputs. One direct from es9023 chip and one buffered by TPA6120
- USB to SPDIF digital output
- SPDIF digital input to USB
- Requires no external power supply
- Digital volume control
- Small size, 110grams. Dimensions: 70mm, height 25mm, depth 65mm (85mm with volume knob and screws)
This device can be useful for capturing digital optical signal for recording on a computer. It can be used as an adaptor to send SPDIF signal from a computer, and it can be used as a normal digital to analog converter driving headphones or amplifiers.Â
I just upgraded to 14.5 and it has NOT fixed the problem unfortunately. Which DAC would you recommend that is supported with Sonoma ?
hi, after upgrading to MACOS Sonoma 14.4 this DAC started behaving very weird, producing noise and unintelligible audio. Are you aware of this problem ? Sonoma 14.3 everything was fine.
There has been some problems in the past with MACOS updates, which has then been fixed. One thing that helps to avoid problems is to make sure only either input or output is enabled at a time, not both at the same time. Go to Sound settings and select another input device if you’re using the output. You can also try to open the Audio MIDI Setup application and adjust the sample rates, select a lower sample rate lik 44.1kHz or 48kHz (if you currently have 92kHz selected) and check if this makes any difference.
Also you can try basic troubleshooting like restarting the computer, disconnect/reconnect the DAC, try another USB port and USB cable.
Hi, I tried this on two Mac’s (an iMac and a MacBook), both running Sonoma 14.4, and they both are experiencing the same problem. So we can rule out the usb port. I will try do use another input.
Hi, thanks for the update. Did you try this:
One thing that helps to avoid problems is to make sure only either input or output is enabled at a time, not both at the same time. Go to Sound settings and select another input device if you’re using the output. You can also try to open the Audio MIDI Setup application and adjust the sample rates, select a lower sample rate lik 44.1kHz or 48kHz (if you currently have 92kHz selected) and check if this makes any difference.
Hi, I tried:
* lowering bit rate/sample rate
* selecting another input device
* another USB cable
* another usb connection (I also have an external MAC display and connected it there).
None of this helps. It’s clearly an issue with Sonoma 14.4, as in 14.3 it worked fine. I assume the bug fix they’ve put in where some USB devices aren’t recognised has broken something else. Could you try with the latest Sonoma by any chance ?
Unfortunately it seems that Sonoma 14.4. introduced issues for many DAC and sound devices. Only the UX1 is affected among our product. It’s not much we can do about this, except waiting for an update from Apple to fix the issue.
Can you tell me the item no / details of the above USB dac. I’m especially interested in the spdif -USB function .
Thank you .