Thanks Peter.  I'll look at those tool tip tomorrow.  Now I want to really enjoy music.

Hi, K. Praphan; most people seem to think that aes/ebu is better than toslink.  To me, it's depend on implementation.  Thus, listening and go with what we like.  I don't have aes/ebu cable now but plan to buy a decent one to compare to my current setup.

For now I'm convince that Hiface Evo is giving a very big bang for a baht spent.  However, it is now on a backlog order and I don't know when I'll be able to buy one.

Teera

Hi Marcin;

Thanks for chiming in.  In my case, I got error message when playing native 192 not 4x qap like yours.  Do I misunderstand something?

Regards,
Teera

24/192 is working with hiface evo and toslink. I'm simply awestruck with the dynamic and sound of deep bass of 24/192 tracks.  Change engine to #4.  Only downside is that it crashed out "too many buffer errors".  Any advises?

Teera

Thanks K. Praphan,that's what I think concerning Juli@.  Weiss int 202 is quite expensive.  It should also be matched with exotic cable such as your Nordost  . So I'll try the Hiface Evo first which is much cheaper but has impressed many people at computer audiophile.

Cheers,
Teera

Hi Peter:

Yes, in the test, I do sometimes have sound with 24/192 but somewhat errortic such as sound comes up only in left channel.
Ok. I'm going to test your hyphothesis that the culprit is "toslink".  Tomorrow I'll borrow Hiface Evo (which is a nice asyn usb hi-rez interface) and connect it to my Emm labs with toslink and AES-EBU.  We'll see.
I config my dac as 16/192 as you suggested, again "play but no sound".
Emm Labs XDS1 is all in one box, cd, sacd, dac up to 24/192 (as recently claimed by Emm's staff).  Ed Meitner (the guy who designed it) is so proud of his toy and is certain that the toslink implementation is superb.  Ok, I'll compare toslink with AES-EBU connection tomorrow.  I cannot go wrong with Emm Labs as there is no configuration to be set at all.  What I can do is to upgrade its firmware from time to time.
Lastly, concerning the soundcard Juli@ that you recommend.  Is it a pci-based soundcard?  I think, mac mini can be used with only usb or firewire external sound card.  I may be wrong.  Please provide more detail or link of Juli@ for mac mini.

Thanks again for supperb support,
Teera

I wonder if anyone here successfully playing 24/192 tracks using mac mini.  If so please let me know how you do it.

Thanks,
Teera

Hi there,
Here are the details:
1.  I cannot select any other engine except the gray-out #3 Engine using the latest model (but I can use engines 1-3 if using old model such as 0.9x-7).
2.  All tracks that cannot be played are 24/192.
3.  I also got no sound playing 44.1 at quadruple or 96 at double sampling rates.
4.  I did test my sound device using control panel/hardware and sound/sound/playback/Realtek Digital Output/Supported Formats/Sample Rates/..  I can play all shown sample rates except 192.0 khz which played haphazard (no sound, incomplete sound).

So my guess is that the "no sound" problem comes from my sound device or my dac (Emm labs XDS1) not XXHigh 

Any other options left for me besides dishing out my mac mini.

Teera

Thanks Peter and K. Praphan.  This is quite late and I am so tired, running around all day and trying to adjust my 'table azimuth at night.  Will get back to both of you tomorrow.  Anyway when you say "sound device", that means my mini soundcard.  Is that right?  And what is the best way to check whether my sound device can play 24/192 or not?  On control panel-sound-playback-sound device-property-advance-sampling rates test?  Sorry for naive question, I've been a mac person for sometime now.

Appreciate your kind help,
Teera

Hi Peter:
Just converted to XX yesterday.  I am quite happy playing 44.1 and 96 files.  But using the latest model 0.9z-2 on my mac mini (late 2009 model) running win 7 via bootcamp, I got two problems;

Firstly, the engine button was gray out and I could not change engine at all (it showed a gray #3 Engine)
Secondly, 44.1 and 96 files sound came through nicely but no sound with 192 files although it showed in the bottom pane that XX was playing the file and in the top left pane it showed correct input and output sampling rates 192000 and 192000 respectively.

I can play 192 files using foobar or J river but obviously I'm not satisfied with their sq.

Regards,
Teera