Does anyone use their D10s primarily to turn their PC's USB sound output, into Coax/Optical SPDIF? I pretty much just realised (last week) that the D10s' secondary function is USB > SPDIF lol, and, because of my situation (the one about to describe in the next paragraph), I'd like to use it on my 99.9%: 16 bit 44.1/88.2kHz, or 24 bit 44.1/88.2/96/176.4/192kHz library (all compatible with SPDIF)
Using the D10s' digital outs, I'd like to switch between my two best DACs without the usual hassle, because right now, it can be (and usually is) way more of a pain than it needs to be. I have to exit Tidal, exit Equalizer APO, start Equalizer APO, let it find the newly attached device, select the newly attached device in the menu so that the equalizer settings will be applied to it, click yes on the elevated Windows privilege to make hardware settings change, make sure eq settings are right, launch Tidal, turn up system volume because it always gets pushed down to 60, and THEN the music can play through the new DAC. But that's when a driver issue like the following hasn't happened:
Say your PC has two USB 2.0 Ports,
1 and
2. You connect D10s to
1: the driver gets installed to port 1. Move D10s to
2? A second copy of the driver is installed. Want to uninstall the driver for
2, but the device is plugged into port 1 (or not plugged in at all)?(it could be preventing you from using DAC 2 in USB port 2 because it thinks DAC 2 is DAC 1 (for example E70 Velvet was in it already, and when you go to put E30 II in, it's seen as Velvet and doesn't operate properly). So you have to select:
and
then you can
right click the light-greyed icon (light grey illustrating the"normally hidden" status of the device) to bring up the drop down menu with the option to begin uninstalling the device.
All that junk you just read? I've had to do- and variations of it -as well as additions to it!
Some many of which, I didn't delve into here because the point of including it at all was illustrating the process, how it can be involved, that after repetition would become annoying.
What I want is to NOT have a "process" at all - I'd like to just have the D10s plugged into the same port on the computer - when I want to switch the DAC, I can just move the optical and XLR cables from the Sabre to the Velvet, and the computer sees NO difference! Tidal didn't even have to pause!
Coincidentally, using optical this way will free up my USB isolator for use (my sleek little HS02) where it's required - I won't have to bring it back and forth.
Now you know my use of the D10s... Is its clock of sufficient caliber feed my DACs {and better DACs in the future} with a quality, jitter-free signal? I'll usually just be going back and forth between DACs, but sometimes entirely different ones may be substituted (friends' DACs, auditioning new DACs in a few years etc)
D70 Pro Sabre #1
E70 Velvet #2