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GUSTARD U18 User Manual

High performance usb audio interface
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Gustard
U18
High performance USB audio interface
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  • Page 1 Gustard High performance USB audio interface User Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Front Panel· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·2 Back Panel·...

  • Page 3: Front Panel

    Front Panel 1. The screen is to display the sampling frequency, clock source and the output of BNC. 2. REF—Clock source. Press to switch between internal clock and external 10MHz clock. 3. IIS—Modes of IIS output. Short press to change the pinout and long press to change the DSD Flag.

  • Page 4: Display & Menu

    Display 1. U18 uses a high-resolution OLED screen to display the working situation and functions. The following figure is main page of the display. 2. Reference clock selection （REF） ： By K2—Bustard’s second generation audio frequency synthesizer, U18 can use external 10MHz clock to enhance the sound quality.

  • Page 5: Iis-Hdmi Pinout

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  • Page 6: Driver Installation

    The port on front panel will introduce more loss and bugs. 2. Turn U18 on after connecting it to PC, a new hardware will be found. If not, please try another port or turn U18 off on again.
  • Page 7 5. When showing: Setup requires that the device is..., please reboot U18 or reconnect the USB cable. 6. Complete. Click Finish. - 6 -...
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  • Page 9: Dsd Hardware Decoding On Foobar2000

    DSD hardware decoding on foobar2000 foobar2000 configuration ● 1. Open foobar2000_DSD_0.7.X, double-click ASIOProxyInstall-0.7.2.exe, then keep clicking next or install to finish. 2. Run foobar2000, click File—>Preferences. - 8 -...
  • Page 10 3. Click ‘Components’ on left bar, then click ‘Install’ on bottom-right corner. Select two files under foobar2000_DSD_0.7.X folder, and click ‘Open’. - 9 -...
  • Page 11 Two new components will appear in the list, click ‘Apply’. Click yes in the message box, foobar2000 will relaunch. - 10 -...
  • Page 12 4. Click File—>Preferences. 5. Click ‘Playback’—> ‘Output’—> ‘ASIO’, then double-click ‘foo_dsd_asio’. - 11 -...
  • Page 13 6. In the new window of ‘foo_dsd_asio’, select ‘Gustard USB Audio’ in ASIO Driver Select ‘ASIO Native’ in DSD Playback Method, other options should be same as the figure. Click X to exit. 7. Click ‘Output’ on left bar, then select ‘ASIO:foo_dsd_asio’ under ‘Device’...
  • Page 14 8. Click ‘Tools’—> ‘SACD’, then select ‘DSD’ under ‘Output Mode’. Click ‘OK’ to complete. - 13 -...

  • Page 15: Dsd Playback Issues

    DSD playback issues foobar2000 ● 1. Q: Why there is no ‘ASIO’ option under ‘Playback’-> ‘Output’? A: Because the ASIO components is not installed. Drag the ‘foo_out_asio.fb2k- component’ under ‘foobar2000_DSD’into foobar2000’s ‘components’page. Then click apply and yes to relaunch foobar2000. You can use ASIO now. - 14 -...
  • Page 16 2. Q: Why there is no ‘SACD’ option under ‘Tools’? A: Because the SACD components is not installed. Drag the ‘foo_out_sacd.fb2k- component’ under ‘foobar2000_DSD’into foobar2000’s ‘components’page. Then click apply and yes to relaunch foobar2000. You can use SACD now. - 15 -...
  • Page 17 3. Q: Finished all settings, I got such a bug when playing DSD file. A: It is caused by version conflicts of ASIOProxy and SACD component. They should all be 0.7.x. If you are using an old version of foobar2000 whose SACD component is 0.6.x.
  • Page 18 There are two solutions. The first is to upgrade the SACD component[following Q&A2]. But some versions of foobar2000’s components is locked, it would work to reinstall the official version. If you do not want to reinstall your foobar2000, you can choose the old version of ASIOProxy like ASIOProxyInstall-0.6.5.exe.

  • Page 19: Specifications

    Specifications Inputs: USB: USB Type-B female, support USB2.0 10M BNC： 50 Ohm input impedance，0dBm-20dBm，CMOS Square wave 0.2V-3.3V，Sine wave 0.5-3.3V。 Outputs: Coaxial： 75 Ohm output impedance, 500mV P-P @75 Ohm 24bit 44.1k-384k/DoP 64-128 AES (XLR)： 110 Ohm output impedance, 2.1V P-P @110 Ohm 24bit 44.1k-384k/DoP 64-128 Optical Audio Toslink：24bit 44.1k-192k /DoP 64 Word Clock output：...

  • Page 20: Warranty Service

    Free Warranty Service GUSTARD X26pro from the purchasing date in the free warranty period, the user uses the product in normal, and the product fails due to component quality or manufacturing problems.

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