Teac ud 301sv dual monaural digitaltoanalog converter with usb, silver. Using the ai301da in conjunction with the teac hr audio player highresolution playback computer software application, anyone can easily explore the world of highrez digital audio. Teac ud h01 digitalanalog converter wusb audio input 32bit dac silver. Aug 28, 2015 learn how to do good card tricks easy magic. It turns out it wasnt much of an upgrade as they both sound equally good to me. Excellent dac nad headphone output, and sounds amazing with dt880s, perfect match id say.
I have had my teac ud h01 for a couple of months and it has worked fine. I emailed teac and they basically told me to get a pc or mac. For example, the ud 501, with its dsd via dop and the ability to resolve up to 32bit integer384 khz sample rate pcm, is a first rate dac. I thought it was good at the time, but theres no comparison with the ud 501 at all, even when i had the new dac hooked up briefly to the a h01 s analog. However, i am considering a headphone amplifier to bypass the teac s.
Who can provide comparative daclistening experience. Anyhow here is the video demonstrating teac dac s white. In wireless configuration, it was used with an essential ph1, fiio m9, dell xps 15 9550, and an. Teac ud h01 dac sony cdpx303es as transport amplification. It has a range of digital and fir filter options and allows the automated pcm upconverter to be disabled. You can download a free latency monitor program latencymon and narrow it.
Teac hr audio player can be downloaded for free from the teac website. Fujifilm xpro 2 vs sony alpha 7ii notes photography hifi. Teac udh01 balanced headphone amplifier mod by rob robinette. Teac ud501 dualmonaural pcmdsd usb digital to analog. Asynchronous modecapable usb input when receiving digital audio signals from a computer via usb cable, the unit can operate in asynchronous mode, controlling the timing of the input signal using the ud 301s internal clock which is identical to the one used in the ud 501. Maker of several lines of products that can be found in large retailers around the globe, teac also makes a reference series comprising highperformance components in small packages.
Oct 08, 2012 squeezebox touch vs fiio vs dacmagic 100 vs dacmagic vs uca202. The current hires audio logo certified brand and products are in below list. Commisioned as an absolute project by the matsushita company in the mid seventies to presumerably show case what the company could acheive it only ever sold a handful of pre production units which were special order only, at. It should be a good test, however, to see if it can drive an inear, as these are designed to be driven by the smallest powered and sized electronics. Teac ud301sv dual monaural digitaltoanalog converter. Both provide a similar level of performance, but one costs much more. Fiio x5 mark iii vs dragonfly red vs meridian explorer 2 dac forumunda hasanali taraf.
Anyone who has one want to hold down the input selector button for 5 seconds and try. The teac ud h01 brings highend digitaltoanalog conversion to an affordable package for component or computer audio playback. The teac hd h01 is an excellent balanced output dac digital to analog converter but its builtin headphone amp has only unbalanced singleended output and is weak and cannot drive high impedance headphones at high volume. Mar 31, 2015 a dac like the dac magic plus, or the teac udh01 includes headphone amplification and output, but you cant really expect it to drive headphones which you would find attractive. Just about all dac chips designed since 1995 or so are deltasigma, but most switch between a handful of output states hence 3. Teac udh01 manuals manuals and user guides for teac ud h01. I leave it on all the time, seems to sound a hair bit smoother when fully up to temperature, and it does get moderately warm then levels off when finally fully warmed up. I logged in to the picoreplayer using putty, and typed picoreplayer to display the configuration menu. Teac ud301 dac 2channel home audio the klipsch audio. I use the term snake oil to identify audio products that dont provide the benefits claimed at least in the physical world.
In addition to its two analogue inputs, the a h01 features two digital inputs optical and coaxial for signals processed through a high resolution, 32 bit, 192 khz da converter chipset type. Teac ud501 usb dac audioholics home theater forums. I want something fairly compact with preferably only 1 wall outlet plug. This is the raspberry pi usb dac support list, its made thanks to all the feedbacks sent by our users. Devices shown on the ir and serial tabs, including many older av devices, require the use of an adapter for control.
I too have an after market cable for the hd800s, from toxic cables. I got the teac ud h01 dac and just assumed that it would work fine on ubuntu. I compared it directly to cambridge audio dacmagic plus in the store. Theres a little more enjoyment to its sound im finding. We are planning to announce the results of verification as soon as possible in this page.
Oct 20, 2017 some of these nucs or whatever they are sometimes called are relatively inexpensive, you might be able to get a new one on offer. Both products are very much built on the rich dac heritage of their brands. The ud 501 uses a single burrbrown pcm1795 dac chip per channel as well as dual muses8920 operational amplifiers on each channel. Teac is a trademark of teac corporation, registered in the u. Teac udh01 digitalanalog converter wusb audio input. Since the coreaudio driver of macos works somewhat for me it works for a few seconds, then. According to teac this unit automatically upsamples all input to 192k. May 20, 2012 rasteme rudd14 usb dac rega dac resolution audio cantata music center rme babyface schiit audio dac s all models silverstone usb dac simaudio moon 100d simaudio moon 300d sound devices usb pre 2 stahltek ariaa dac tascam us 122l 122 mkii 144l 144 mkii all usb bus powered models teac ud h01 dac totaldac d1 reference trends audio dac. May 24, 2014 i am using a usb dac teac ud h01 which requires a little extra configuration. Teac s a h01 combines a highquality da converter with a stereo amplifier to create a compact audio system for your home or office. Devices found on the ip tab can be controlled directly from the app. Please report in the comments below if your device is working or not, so we can set up a. Rega dacr vs arcam irdac opinions digital sources, dacs. The teac ud 501 is currently the least expensive dac on that list but that doesnt mean youre necessarily getting less.
Buy usb dac, including dac low prices, as well as an investment in longterm nature. The ud h01 is a dual digitalanalogue converter containing two burrbrown dac chipsets type 1795 and a tenor usb audio class 2 interface. It was perfectly placed as the digitaltoanalogue converter thats a dac to the uninitiated reemerged as a popular way to give your digital system a sonic boost. Seriously, just pick an i2s dac on ease of set up, support or price. Ive been looking at the teac ud 501 as a replacement and this hd dac 1 looks very interesting. The history of my current ownership of the teac ud 301 dac headphone amp dates back to march of this year when i purchased the teac ud h01 dac headphone amp from amazon. Usb dac you might also want to check out the teac ud h01 too. Teac ud h01 owners manual 40 pages usb audio da converter. Please report in the comments below if your device is working or not, so we can set up a comprehensive list of supported\unsupported raspberry pi usb dac. The udh01 handles sampling rates up to 192khz and also deals with 24 bit words, and it. Bitstream, what is it, how is it different to modern da. It replaced a fiio combo so not that much competition. While teac reference dac cannot replace my main dac headphone amp benchmark dac1 it produces an enjoying sound with.
Meanwhile, the mojo uses the latest and most powerful processors, making it, on paper, the companys most capable model. Theres a good variety of sizes of dacs around, but we think the ud h01 is. The teac also sports an individual toroidalcore power transformer on each channel to truly achieve a total dual monaural design. Theres a good variety of sizes of dacs around, but we. Five stereo inputs are available 2 analog and 3 digital format. Teac udh01 digitalanalog converter wusb audio input 32bit dac silver. I bought the unit to serve as a dac headphone amp for a source logitech squeezebox touch. I have had my teac ud h01 for a couple months and i am pretty pleased with its performance. Isnt it wonderful how many excellent budget dacs are. All are 32 bit dacs, but sn ratio on the teac dac 128 db, while 115 and 112 on marantz and integra, respectively. Hi richard, sorry for the delay in uploading a video, ive been on holiday and very busy since arriving back home. Teac ud h01 digitaltoanalog converter in the fifth and sixth grades, all i did was listen to rocknroll and read comic books that is, when i wasnt meticulously copying gil kanes ingenious green lantern line drawings inch by painstaking inch.
Proac super tablette q acoustics 2010i cables by both nva and talk electronics. As a matter of fact, the teac offers up to double rate dsd 5. Teac udh01 32bit192khz some say it works, some say it doesnt. Configuring a usb dac is a matter of getting a list of available alsa devices and setting the output accordingly. You need to install teacs drivers on your computer to use highsampling rates via usb.
The hires audio logo is widely well accepted and expanding its awareness through many audio brands worldwide. This, the dac, is the first one of the family that weve seen. I havent got the chance to try it myself yet, but i heard its a pretty good device. Multichannel amplifiers free delivery possible on eligible purchases. The original dacmagic continues for now but will be replaced by a new model in the near future. The teac nt505 uses dual monoural mode akm 4497 dacs, while my marantz uses akm 4458 and integra uses akm 4438. Independent highcapacity toroidal core power transformers for left and right channels both left and right channels each have one dedicated highcapacity toroidal core power transformer that supplies stable current. Please make sure and understand that the list might not cover all brand and products. During the 5 months that i owned the ud h01 i became very impressed with its fine build and resulting sound quality which far exceeded that of the musical fidelity v dac and x. Breve guida alla musica liquida in alta fedelta francesco.
Oct 02, 20 teac udh01 32bit192khz some say it works, some say it doesnt. Apr 19, 2014 however they are just more openairy then the hd650s. Remove gratuitous pad field jiri slaby mon jun 09 2014 05. Sep 14, 2012 bitstream was a marketing name for philips family of 1bit deltasigma convertors. Confirmed to work with both creative xfi go and the teac udh01. Instead of using the offtheshelf dac chips inside its converters, chord uses programmable processors loaded with proprietary software.
Check the ip, ir and serial tabs below to find devices you wish to control. You can get the latest firmware update from their web site here. Although my dell laptopjriver 20cambridge 851d the latter having recently replaced a teac ud h01 usb dac setup can deliver excellent sound, i am not at all a fan of the frequent electronic pops and ticks that mar digital replay via the dell. The teac a h01 is remarkably smaller than a typical av receiver and even considerably smaller than stereo receivers like the onkyo tx8020. It was always clicking after every song on and off as the song changed. Teac udh01 balanced headphone amplifier mod rob robinette. Furutech, however, is represented in singapore by musiclink av distribution. So i decided to post the same question over here on ca to maybe get some more responses from people that have tried to use the touch with the teac via usb. Regarding the dac in the ai501, ill say that the texas instruments burbrown 5102 chip it uses is their economy model, and my experience with it in the teac a h01 was good but not great. Fix triggering bredr l2cap connect too early jiri slaby mon jun 09 2014 05. There are numerous good sounding hifi dacs in the highend hifi marketplace, but i have been impressed with teac s run of lowcost converters over the past four years.
Teac engineering is already hard at work on new macos high sierra for our products. The history of my current ownership of the teac ud301 dacheadphone amp. Many thanks to our loyal users for your patience and understanding through this process. We have 2 teac udh01 manuals available for free pdf download. Thanks to the highquality nature of these components, digital audio data from an external pc is converted to an analogue signal in high resolution hifi quality using up to 32 bit, 192 khz asynchronous conversion technology. May 01, 2015 i recently purchased an irdac as an upgrade to my teac udh01. Presently i use a mac mini to a teac ud h01 dac into marantz nr1504. Among these is the ud h01 digitaltoanalog converter.
Teac hr audio player for iosandroid highresolution music player app for iosandroid. Cambridge audio azur dacmagic plus digital to analogue convert, black. This seems a little strange to me since apparently the edo mod. The ud 503 is the first product in our reference series to include one.
However, the teac ud 501 also includes options to dim or turn off the display, automatically power off the usb port when not in use, to. Just pointing out that the latest driver from april 2014 for the ud h01 same for a h01 still works fine for me with macos 10. I also use the balanced outputs of the blockhead i have to say that i got very respectable sound with the hd800s, original cable and the headphone output of the teac ud h01 dac. The teac ud 501s menu system is remarkably comprehensive, for a dac. The burr brown digitaltoanalog converter supports highresolution sample rates up to 192khz32bit. These components make the udh01 equal a stand alone, high performance external sound card. Please note, that since raspyfi is directly based on raspbian these are supported dacs on raspberry pi as well, so you can take this as a raspberry pi usb dac compatibility list. I purchased this dac about a month ago and think it is about time i shared my thoughts and some additional info you may not find elsewhere online. With a sleek design and compact body the ud h01 is the new standard for a modern generation. So, today i had a chance to audition the ud h01 with my dt880s 600 ohm.
Squeezebox touch vs fiio vs dacmagic 100 vs dacmagic vs. Pink floyd the wall sansui au 20000 mirage m1si loudspeakers thorens td 126 mkii duration. Other company names, product names and logos are the trademarks or. Btw, ive found the problem with the usb driver dropping the device occasionally seems. Ud 301 dualmonaural da converter with usb streaming pd301 cd player with builtin fm tuner and usb port ai501da integrated amplifier with usb streaming. Cambridge audios original dacmagic was something of a whirlwind success. I wonder if it is possible to defeat the automatic upsampling, as can be done on the ud 301, which is basically the same, plus dsd capability. The teac ud 301burrbrown pcm1795 32bit192khz has virtually the same dac chip as my yamaha cdsburrbrown pcm1796 24bit192khz which i like very much. Any thoughts on ud 501 compared to the marantz dac 1. Teac udh01 digitalanalog converter wusb audio input 32bit dac. Pc to teac ah01 cambridge audio 351a via dac avforums.