M2TECH YOUNG 384KHZ/32BIT DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER USER MANUAL REV. 1.
YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 more suitable to use.
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 obtain the best audio performance out of a music file. Even if getting 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.
YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 M2Tech www.m2tech.biz INDEX 1. Unpacking and placing the unit........................................................................................5 2. Front Panel ......................................................................................................................6 3. Back Panel.......................................................................................................................7 4.
YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 cover. You should find the following items: • • • • one Young DAC; one wall adapter; one A-B USB cable; a sheet with indications about how to obtain this manual and the drivers. Should one or more items be missing, please contact your dealer or local distributor.
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 www.m2tech.biz 2. Front Panel 1 3 2 Figure 1 1) Standby button. Press this button to put the unit into standby. When in standby, the unit is silent and the display is off. Standby ends when this button or the input selection button is pressed. 2) Input selection button. Press this button to change the selected input. Inputs are selected sequentially by consecutively pressing this button. 3) Display.
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 www.m2tech.biz 3. Back Panel M2TECH RIGHT OUT YOUNG AES/EBU PUSH LEFT OUT 384k HZ 32BIT DIGITAL-to-ANALOG CONVERTER S/PDIF 1 S/PDIF 2 TOSLINK USB 2.0 S/N: 4 5 DC IN 15-18VDC MADE IN ITALY 6 7 8 9 10 11 Figure 2 4) Right channel analog output. Connect to right channel of the amplifier or preamplifier input. RCA female connector. 5) Left channel analog output.
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 connector (Figure 2, 10) of the Young. Connect the “A” plug of the cable to a 2.0 USB port of your computer. Connect two interconnects to the analog outputs of the Young (Figure 2, 4/5) and to the input of your amplifier/preamplifier.
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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.biz/download.asp). 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 encapsulated in zip files. 5.2.
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 step. Indicate the folder where you have previously unzipped the driver and proceed to installation.
YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 installation. Figure 6 Note: the wizard appearance and the guided installation procedure may slightly vary from XP to Vista to Windows 7. 5.2.2. Manual installation Sometimes it’s necessary or advisable to install the driver manually.
YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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-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.
YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 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 YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 procedure which depends on the operating system and the way the driver was installed. 5.4.1. 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 YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 commands: sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/Young.kext /tmp sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions sudo pkgutil --forget com.m2tech.driver Then, restart the Mac.
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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: Direct Sound (DS) and Kernel Streaming (KS).
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 or settings are changed again, Young is the audio peripheral all audio programs will use when operating in direct sound mode. 6.1.2. Configuring for Kernel Streaming with Windows XP Kernel Streaming has no standard setting in Windows XP.
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 (DS), Kernel Streaming (KS) and WASAPI.
YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 Vista and Windows 7. KS must be selected in the specific player you choose to use. For example, when using FooBar, with the Young connected to the PC, go to the File/Preferences/Playback /Output tab and select “KS: M2Tech 384/32 DAC” as output device.
YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 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).
YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 device list (Figure 17).
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 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).
YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 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 Young’s power and supply quality requirements and allows for very high performance. Nevertheless, a better (and more expensive) unit could squeeze the last degree of performance from the Young.
M2Tech YOUNG 384kHz/32bit digital-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER REVISION 1.o – NOVEMBER 2010 www.m2tech.biz 12. Technical Specifications Sampling frequencies: ...................... 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4*, 192*, 352.8**, 384kHz** Resolution:........................................ 16 to 32 bits*** USB: ................................................. 2.0 high speed Clock precision: ................................ +/-10ppm 0 to 60°C, 2ppm typical @ 25°C S/PDIF input sensitivity: .................... 0.
