M2Tech HiFace Mavericks problem

[Bloodwound]

Normally I'd agree, but in this case I'm more concerned that once they get a basic driver out they'll simply move the Highface-1 and similarly derived OEM boards to legacy product status and not invest any additional time or money on further development.

 

So my vote is to still push for integer mode now because there's a good chance it's a now or NEVER situation.

They should just release the source code for the osx driver together with the linux driver (which already is). It can only be good for business.

[Cdz12250]

Got a reply from M2Tech yesterday:

Dear Huy,

 

thank you for your e-mail. We actually know about using Northstar and Chord drivers to use our products. The fact is that a company cannot suggest using other companies part or apps to run her own products. Anyway, our new driver is almost ready, we hope to release a beta in 2 weeks.

 

Best regards,

 

Marco Manunta

 

So ~2 weeks for beta drivers.

 

 

Huy Hong, first of all, you are da man. I've been grooving to sweet music because of your fix. Thank you so much.

 

One question. I know nothing about Unix, so I went to Terminal and entered your commands slavishly. It worked, of course. My question is, when the drivers from Marco do come out, am I going to have to somehow reverse what you had us do from the command line in order to make the hiface 2 work with the new driver? If so, could you please post the commands for us dummies?

 

Thanks again.

[Conte_Oliver]

With the HiFace2 as you wrote, you do not need any driver.

G

[Cdz12250]

With the HiFace2 as you wrote, you do not need any driver.

G

 

That's weird. It didn't work at all until I installed the Northstar driver. But now that I think of it, the output device is named Hiface 2 USB.

[slowmotion]

Good news! At least he did not forget his long overdue homework...

One more week to go and we will know if M2Tech will hand-in its homework or miss target again...

[juliocat]

One more week to go and we will know if M2Tech will hand-in its homework or miss target again...

 

I have put all my money in North Star Desing.

[rruffin]

Is dinner ready yet?

[slowmotion]

Is dinner ready yet?

Timeout...

[abolit]

yes... Italian lunch... 200gram boiled spaghetti per ear...

[wavac]

I cant believe that they have not come up with a solution yet, what the heck.

[slowmotion]

I cant believe that they have not come up with a solution yet, what the heck.

As an IT guy I find it amusing (if not amazing) that Mr. M&M (and his device developer, whoever he is) spent 4 months and still have not yet figured out how to write an Maverick device driver properly...

 

Somehow this makes me remember the day when E-mu / Creative Labs failed to deliver Snow Leopard 64-bit driver for its 0404 USB DAC for such a long time that effectively killed the product...

 

No more DAC with custom device driver. No more.

[Miska]

Somehow this makes me remember the day when E-mu / Creative Labs failed to deliver Snow Leopard 64-bit driver for its 0404 USB DAC for such a long time that effectively killed the product...

 

Same thing when it comes to Win7/8 driver. I guess there's still no final release of Win7 driver although we are already at Win8.

 

But it should work just fine on OS X without any special driver, because it works just fine on Linux with UAC2 driver (although there are couple of quirks in the driver for it).

 

hiFace works just fine on Linux too, since the driver is now officially part of Linux kernel.

[interzone]

Big thanks to all who have contributed to this thread; got a JKDAC today that uses hiface drivers and now have it working. Cheers.

[interzone]

Big thanks to all who have contributed to this thread; got a JKDAC today that uses hiface drivers and now have it working. Cheers.

 

 

Hearing a few clicks and pops but nothing major, anything known how to reduce these?

[Conte_Oliver]

Usually what player do you use ? A solution is to increase to the maximum all buffers

G

[juliocat]

Wyred for Sound release BETA DAC-2 10.9 (Mavericks) Driver on 03/04/14 Huy Hong we need you!!!!!!!

 

Marco is totally lost.

[interzone]

Usually what player do you use ? A solution is to increase to the maximum all buffers

G

 

Already tried that, no joy.

[Huy Hong]

Wyred for Sound release BETA DAC-2 10.9 (Mavericks) Driver on 03/04/14 Huy Hong we need you!!!!!!!

 

Marco is totally lost.

 

Thanks for finding these. Updated installation instructions using the W4S DAC-2 based drivers here, includes commands to remove the older Northstar r5 drivers:

https://gist.github.com/huyhong/8323746

 

I suspect both the Northstar and W4S drivers are from the same developer, with the W4S being a slightly newer build (Northstar: v1.0.55 vs W4S: v1.0.59)

 

Otherwise only difference in the kexts is the "BlockSize" key being increased from 512 to 4096.

 

Not getting static or pops at all from Audirvana or Spotify in 15 minutes of use, will continue to observe through the night. Direct Mode and Integer Mode still seem to be intact.

 

Lemme know if I can be of any additional assistance .

[slowmotion]

Thanks for finding these. Updated installation instructions using the W4S DAC-2 based drivers here, includes commands to remove the older Northstar r5 drivers:

https://gist.github.com/huyhong/8323746

 

I suspect both the Northstar and W4S drivers are from the same developer, with the W4S being a slightly newer build (Northstar: v1.0.55 vs W4S: v1.0.59)

 

Otherwise only difference in the kexts is the "BlockSize" key being increased from 512 to 4096.

 

Not getting static or pops at all from Audirvana or Spotify in 15 minutes of use, will continue to observe through the night. Direct Mode and Integer Mode still seem to be intact.

 

Lemme know if I can be of any additional assistance .

Thanks Huy! Yes the clicks and pops are gone for over 30 mins now. Looks like this driver is good and stable enough for use.

 

BTW anybody mind to send Mr. M an email to ask for his status?

[lyd]

Thanks for finding these. Updated installation instructions using the W4S DAC-2 based drivers here, includes commands to remove the older Northstar r5 drivers:

https://gist.github.com/huyhong/8323746

 

I suspect both the Northstar and W4S drivers are from the same developer, with the W4S being a slightly newer build (Northstar: v1.0.55 vs W4S: v1.0.59)

 

Otherwise only difference in the kexts is the "BlockSize" key being increased from 512 to 4096.

 

Not getting static or pops at all from Audirvana or Spotify in 15 minutes of use, will continue to observe through the night. Direct Mode and Integer Mode still seem to be intact.

 

Lemme know if I can be of any additional assistance .

 

Awesome. It works, I just had to reboot and then run the last commands again for the driver to appear. The static is gone (there was still a little static even with full buffers using the Northstar driver).

 

Thanks Huy!

[lyd]

I had some problems with BitPerfect 2.0 and integer mode – I would get occasional choppy playback which could be sometimes fixed by playing a new track, sometimes by closing and re-opening BitPerfect. After having tried disabling integer mode, the issue has not re-appered – so far…

[juliocat]

I just had to reboot and then run the last commands again for the driver to appear.

 

Same for me, no problems at all sounding excellent!!!!

 

Huy you are the Man.

 

 

Marco you can take all the time you want to release the driver. we don't need it anymore.

[fiszer]

Thanks for finding these. Updated installation instructions using the W4S DAC-2 based drivers here, includes commands to remove the older Northstar r5 drivers:

https://gist.github.com/huyhong/8323746

 

I suspect both the Northstar and W4S drivers are from the same developer, with the W4S being a slightly newer build (Northstar: v1.0.55 vs W4S: v1.0.59)

 

Otherwise only difference in the kexts is the "BlockSize" key being increased from 512 to 4096.

 

Not getting static or pops at all from Audirvana or Spotify in 15 minutes of use, will continue to observe through the night. Direct Mode and Integer Mode still seem to be intact.

 

Lemme know if I can be of any additional assistance .

 

Hi everybody!

I'm Pawel. Live in Poland. I've been watching this thread for few weeks and there is only one thing I can tell: Huy Hong You Are THE MAN!!!

Thank You very much!!! Having my hiface Evo working flawlessly!

[tkl0]

Same here. Just installed the W4S driver and my Evo is finally working after few months. Thank you Huy Hong!

[BobP63]

Marco you can take all the time you want to release the driver. we don't need it anymore.

 

Please speak for yourself in this regard.

 

I for one want an OEM driver delivered from M2Tech that doesn't require any manipulation or non-standard installation procedure to work properly.