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dCS Vivaldi Upsampler Plus User Manual
A word about Music Playing Software
There are countless programs that can play music on Windows and Apple Mac OSX PCs.
Unfortunately, not all of them present the data completely unprocessed to the USB ports. For
example, Windows Media Player re-samples all data to 24 bits, albeit at the original sample rate, while
iTunes rate converts data as necessary to the output sample rate set in the OSX Audio MIDI Set-up
panel.
With such a proliferation of playing software, and with updates being issued daily, it is impossible for
dCS to be fully up-to-date with the behaviour and performance of all programs. If you have questions
or problems, we would urge you to take them up with your software vendor. Different programs
operate very differently and it is well worth finding out exactly how your particular program processes
the audio.
We suggest that you use a premium music streaming program, such as JRiver Media Center
(Windows or Mac) or Audirvana (Mac), rather than relying on the software bundled with the operating
system.
Selecting the Vivaldi Upsampler as your Audio Output device
Whichever program you are using to play your music, your computer may not automatically select
your Vivaldi Upsampler as the preferred playback device. Once you have connected the Upsampler
and switched it on, you can correct this as follows:
Mac OSX
TM
- Open Finder, click on the
dCS Vivaldi USB ...
from the list on the left-hand side, right-click on it, and choose
for sound
output" from the drop down list. Set the
Audio MIDI
Setup.
Close
Windows 10
TM
/ Windows 8.1
Hardware and Sound
choose
Set as Default Communication
enhancements. Select the
down box. Check the 2 boxes under
panel.
This is basic set up information only.
Open your streaming program, select the
and play some music.
Vivaldi Upsampler Manual v2_0x
Go
TM
/ Windows 7
>
Sound.
In the
Playback
Device. Click the
Advanced
tab, choose
Exclusive
Vivaldi Upsampler
Utilities
tab and select
Format
384000.0Hz
to
TM
/ Windows Vista
TM
panel, right-click
dCS Vivaldi Upsampler Audio
Enhancements
24 bit, 192000 Hz (Studio Quality)
Mode, click
OK
and
in the
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Software Issue 2.0x
November 2016
Audio MIDI Setup.
>
"Use this device
2ch-24bit
and
- Go to
Start
>
Control Panel
tab and check
Disable all
from the drop-
OK
again to close the
Options
Preferences
or
English version
Select
Integer.
>
and
Sound
panel
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