M2TECH HIFACE EVO 192KHZ/24BIT DIGITAL AUDIO INTERFACE USER MANUAL REV. 1.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 Warning! Changes or modifications not authorized by the manufacturer can invalidate the compliance to CE regulations and cause the unit to be no more suitable to use.
hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 M2Tech www.m2tech.biz Dear customer, thank you for purchasing hiFace Evo. What you have is a first-rate USB-to-S/PDIF converter with many unique features conceived to obtain the best audio performance out of a music file. Even if getting digital music out of a PC or a Mac is nowadays quite simple, much harder is to obtain the best sonic performance from it, due to intrinsic limits in USB 1.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 INDEX 1. Front Panel ......................................................................................................................5 2. Back Panel.......................................................................................................................6 3. Connection to the host .....................................................................................................7 4.1.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 1. Front Panel 6 1 2 7 3 8 4 5 Figure 1 1) Supply input. Apply a voltage in the range 7V to 11V. Tip is positive, ring is negative. This input is protected against polarity inversion. 2mm tip jack supply connector 2) External clock in. Apply a clock source if you need higher precision and stability than provided by the internal oscillators. Please remember that a suitable clock (22.5792MHz or 24.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 2. Back Panel 9 10 11 12 Figure 2 9) I2S output. Direct I2S ouput for connection to a board or DAC provided with I2S input. This input is not galvanically decoupled, so an external solution or a galvanically isolated input must be used if galvanic isolation is required.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 3. Connection to the host Please refer to section 2, “Front Panel Description”. Connect the “B” plug of a 2.0 USB A-B cable to the USB connector (Figure 1, 3) of hiFace Evo. Connect the “A” plug of the cable to a 2.0 USB port of your computer. Connect a 9V power supply or a 7.2V/10.8V lithium battery, or a 9V alkaline battery to the supply connector (Figure 1, 1) of hiFace Evo.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 4. Driver installation 4.1. Obtaining the driver The drivers for hiFace Evo are available on the M2Tech website, in the download page (www.m2tech.biz/download.html). Download the driver you need for your computer and operating system. Windows drivers are contained in zip files, Mac drivers are contained in dmg files. 4.2.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 Click on the button to proceed. A window appears as shown in figure 4: Figure 4 Choose automatic installation (as recommended) and proceed to next step. Indicate the folder where you have previously unzipped the driver and proceed to installation.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 Click on Continue. The installation will proceed to the end. The window shown in figure 6 will appear. Click on Finish to complete the driver installation. Figure 6 Note: the wizard appearance and the guided installation procedure may slightly vary from XP to Vista to Windows 7. 4.2.2. Manual installation Sometimes it’s necessary or advisable to install the driver manually.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 4.3. Installing the driver on a Mac Double-click on the zip file to open it. It contains a single dmg file. Extract it from the zip and double-click on it to open it. It only contains a pkg file. Double click on it to start driver installation. The window shown in figure 7 will appear. Figure 7 Click on the Continue button. The installation process will go on and the window in figure 8 will appear.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 Select “Install for all users”, then click on Continue button. Another window will appear as in figure 9 and you’ll be asked to type in the administrator password. After doing that, the installation process will continue and you’ll be asked for a confirmation to continue the process up to the computer restart. Click on Continue Installation button.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 4.4. Unistalling the driver Sometimes it is necessary to uninstall the driver to roll back to a previous version. Uninstall is a quite simple procedure which depends on the operating system and the way the driver was installed. 4.4.1. Uninstalling the driver on a Windows-based PC after installation with setup32.exe or setup64.exe Go to the control panel and launch the “Application Installation” utility.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 Figure 11 Right-click to access the available actions. Select “Uninstall”. 4.4.3. Uninstalling the driver on a Mac Open a console, then type the following commands: sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/Hiface.kext /tmp sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions sudo pkgutil --forget com.m2tech.driver Then, restart the Mac.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 5. Configuring the computer to use hiFace Evo 5.1. Configuring a PC with Windows XP A PC with Windows XP can use hiFace in two different ways: Direct Sound (DS) and Kernel Streaming (KS).
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 peripheral is listed as “kernel streaming”, it will operate in Direct Sound mode when listed here. From now on, unless hiFace Evo is disconnected or settings are changed again, hiFace is the audio peripheral all audio programs will use when operating in direct sound mode. 5.1.2. Configuring for Kernel Streaming with Windows XP Kernel Streaming has no standard setting in Windows XP.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 5.2. Configuring a PC with Windows Vista or Windows 7 A PC with Windows Vista or Windows 7 can use hiFace in three different ways: Direct Sound (DS), Kernel Streaming (KS) and WASAPI.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 5.2.2. Configuring for Kernel Streaming with Windows Vista or Windows 7 As for Windows XP, Kernel Streaming has no standard setting in Windows Vista and Windows 7. KS must be selected in the specific player you choose to use. For example, when using FooBar, with hiFace Evo connected to the PC, go to the File/Preferences/Playback /Output tab and select “KS: hiFace” as output device.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 6. Configuring the player for Kernel Streaming: some examples 6.1. FooBar To use FooBar in KS mode it is necessary to download the DLL for Kernel Streaming from the FooBar2000 website and install it in the Components sub-folder inside FooBar2000 main folder in your hard disk. The DLL can be found at http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_out_ks (click on Download).
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 Figure 16 Go to Plug-in/Output and select “Kernel Streaming Output”. Then click on Configure button. Choose HIFACE Kernel Steraming in the output device list (Figure 17).
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 7. Configuring the player for WASAPI: an example 7.1. FooBar To use FooBar with WASAPI under Windows 7 it is necessary to download the DLL for WASAPI from the FooBar2000 website and install it in the Components sub-folder inside FooBar2000 main folder in your hard disk. The DLL can be found at http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_out_wasapi (click on Download).
hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 M2Tech www.m2tech.biz 8. Using the external clock When a very high precision and stability clock source is available, an external clock can be applied to hiFace Evo on the related BNC input (Figure 1, 2). Whenever the clock is present with the right voltage, the LED indicator (Figure 1, 7) will lit in green and the hiFace Evo will automatically revert to the external clock.
M2Tech hiFace Evo 192kHz/24bit digital audio interface www.m2tech.biz REVISION 1.o – JULY 2010 11. Technical Specifications Sampling frequencies: ...................... 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4*, 192kHz* Resolution:........................................ 16 to 24 bits USB: ................................................. 2.0 high speed External clock voltage: ...................... 3Vpp to 3.6Vpp External clock frequency:.................. 10 to 25MHz External clock input impedance: .......
