M2TECH YOUNG User Manual

Summary of YOUNG

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    M2tech young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter user manual rev. 1.0 – 11/2010

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 2 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz warning! Changes or modifications not authorized by the manufacturer can invalidate the compliance to ce regulations and cause the unit to be no mo...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 3 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz dear customer, thank you for purchasing young. What you have is a first-rate digital-to-analog converter with many unique features conceived to obt...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 4 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz index 1. Unpacking and placing the unit........................................................................................5 2. Front panel ......

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 5 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 1. Unpacking and placing the unit place the carton box on a table and open it by removing or cutting the adhesive tape. Extract the foam upper cove...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 6 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 2. Front panel 1 2 3 figure 1 1) standby button. Press this button to put the unit into standby. When in standby, the unit is silent and the displa...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 7 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 3. Back panel 4 push m2tech young 384 h 32bit digital-to-analog converter k z dc in 15-18v dc toslink usb 2.0 aes/ebu s/pdif 1 s/pdif 2 made in ita...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 8 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 4. Connecting and powering the unit please refer to section 3, “back panel description”. Connect the “b” plug of a 2.0 usb a-b cable to the usb con...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 9 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 5. Driver installation 5.1. Obtaining the driver the drivers for the young are available on the m2tech website, in the download page ( www.M2tech.B...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 10 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 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...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 11 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 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 inst...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 12 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 5.3. 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-cli...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 13 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 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 admini...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 14 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 5.4. Unistalling the driver sometimes it is necessary to uninstall the driver to roll back to a previous version. Uninstall is a quite simple proc...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 15 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz right-click to access the available actions. Select “uninstall”. 5.4.3. Uninstalling the driver on a mac open a console, then type the following c...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 16 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 6. Configuring the computer to use the young 6.1. Configuring a pc with windows xp a pc with windows xp can use the young in two different ways: d...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 17 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz peripheral is listed as “kernel streaming”, it will operate in direct sound mode when listed here. From now on, unless the young is disconnected o...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 18 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 5.2. Configuring a pc with windows vista or windows 7 a pc with windows vista or windows 7 can use the young in three different ways: direct sound...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 19 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 6.2.2. Configuring for kernel streaming with windows vista or windows 7 as for windows xp, kernel streaming has no standard setting in windows vis...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 20 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 7. Configuring the player for kernel streaming: some examples 7.1. Foobar to use foobar in ks mode it is necessary to download the dll for kernel ...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 21 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz figure 16 go to plug-in/output and select “kernel streaming output”. Then click on configure button. Choose young kernel streaming in the output d...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 22 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 8. Configuring the player for wasapi: an example 8.1. Foobar to use foobar with wasapi under windows 7 it is necessary to download the dll for was...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 23 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 9. Using a power supply different from the standard one the young comes with a 15v/1a wall adapter. This unit has been tested to comply with the y...

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    Young 384 k h z /32bit digital-to-analog converter revision 1.O – november 2010 copyright © 2010, m2tech snc di manunta & marino 24 m2tech www.M2tech.Biz 12. Technical specifications sampling frequencies: ...................... 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4*, 192*, 352.8**, 384khz** resolution:............