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Micromega Mydac is a pain..

I've been trying to upgrade the driver for this for 2 days now and I'm done pulling out my hair. What a joke. The driver for 24 bits/192 khz won't load with Windows 10. The tutorial supplied doesn't work, either. Thought I'd try my old desk top which runs Windows XP, and got somewhere with that. I was able to download the driver, but it still wasn't recognized with my notebook running Windows 10. I uninstalled, reinstalled, uninstalled, and reinstalled, and it still isn't recognized. Micromega doesn't respond to emails. It will work for streaming Tidal, Spotify, and Radio Tunes, but it just bothers me that I bought something that only partially works and the manufacturer won't even respond. I've had reservations about this digital business and now I see why. I've had a monster headache for 2 days now and I'm finished with it. When I think about hooking the notebook up to it I just get pi$$ed. I think if I take a huge hammer to it I'd feel a lot better.
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tonykay
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After all of the money I've invested in conventional hi-end "stereo" equipment, I have procrastinated on moving into computer audio, hirez downloads, etc. Thank you for confirming that decision.
djohnson54
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$280, I understand your frustration but this sort of thing happens after EVERY new iteration of Windows (and probably Mac OS too). I'm not specifically speaking about the MyDAC driver so don't everyone jump my case about Macs - I love Unix). It happened with Windows XP, it happened with Windows 7, it happened with Windows 8 and I don't see it ending anytime soon. That's why I have NOT upgraded to 10 and probably won't for at least 6 months.

Looking at the tutorial document, it appears that there are some hoops to jump through related to the driver not being digitally signed for Windows 10. I suspect Micromega underestimated the time it would take to have their driver certified by Microsoft and that this will probably resolve itself eventually. I also suspect that their support is overwhelmed by the Windows 10 issues given the huge rollout that was almost forced by Microsoft.

I know this is probably not much solace but if you feel like going for that hammer - don't. Just send it to me and I'll hook it up to my Squeezbox Touch. :)

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abucktwoeighty OP
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After going through all of the above, I thought I'd slip a cd in and relax. The disc wouldn't load after multiple tries. I was so angry I took it and bent it in half, then in half again, and it exploded into dozens of pieces. Then I thought I'd just listen to Radio Tunes through the tablet. The left channel decided it wasn't going to work. I messed with that for a couple hours before I gave up and put it on the charger. It's now about 1:30 am and before I turned in I thought of one more thing to look at to get it working right. I turn it on, plug in the ear buds, and it works. I have no clue why. I guess yesterday was my no-go-digital day. I had contacted the seller of the mydac about my problems asking if they had any ideas in helping with my problem. I received an email with a phone number to a person who is willing to help. Hoping I have success since it seemed yesterday was the no digital day.
tketcham
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Windows upgrades haven't affected my turntable. '-)
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