Author Archives: Hifime

Introducing the UD80: 2 x 80W digital USB Amplifier

edit: check out the new UDP80: https://wp.eaudo.com/news/fully-digital-amplifiers We are excited to introduce the UD80 digital amplifier, the UD20’s bigger brother! UD80 is powerful with up to 2x80W @ 8 ohm, and while UD20’s bass is on the lighter side the UD80 has a deep powerful bass. It still has that ultra clear audiophile sound quality. We are [read more]

New SPDIF (optical/coaxial) Sabre DAC

We have made a new version version of the optical/coaxial input ES9023 DAC, this time in a case and with an added headphone amplifier. It has a trafo inside, so it runs on mains voltage directly.  The left knob switches between standby, optical and the two coaxial inputs, the right is a volume knob that [read more]

New version of SABRE DAC 2 / UAE23+

We’ll help you celebrating christmas with the new version of our externally powered Sabre dac. We have included a headphone amp in this new version, and made it fit the same box as the UD20 amplifier uses. The volume knob controls the headphone out only, so the direct line out on the back is not [read more]

Asynchronous USB Audio / Asynchronous Digital to Analog Converters

USB transfer modes has received a lot of interest and attention recently and “Asynchronous DAC’s” has been praised and hyped for it’s superior performance. However there seems to be a lot of confusion around asynchronous USB Audio.  There is a good and explaining article at EDN network about USB Audio.  Here’s a short explanation: There are 4 [read more]

ASIO driver for Savitech (SA9023) devices available

Savitech has released Windows ASIO drivers for the SA9023 USB receiver.  It can be downloaded here. ASIO drivers provides lower latency by bypassing the normal audio path in windows. However it is not required to use ASIO, the Savitech SA9023 devices also works with the native USB audio drivers. Asio drivers is is only recommended [read more]

Now accepting Bitcoins!

We are now also accepting payment in Bitcoins ! This might make it easier for customers in some countries to buy from us. Payments are processed by bitpay.com   We are of course still accepting payment by cards and Paypal which will be easier for most people.   If you don’t know what bitcoins is, [read more]

ES9023 I2S DAC

We made this mini ES9023 board to be used with I2S (or left justified) inputs. It can be used with onboard or external masterclock, and it’s very simple to swtich between the two. There is space for oscillators. And we can include and install a 27Mhz oscillator. We used quality DALE resistors and a ultra [read more]

DAC’s for Android phones/tablets and iPad/iPhone

Mobile phones can be great media players if it wasn’t for the non-optimal sound quality from their regular headphone outputs. Through trial and error we have discovered that some of the USB chips works with Android and Apple devices. For the added convenience we made the “Android” dac, which is basically the “tiny” model with [read more]