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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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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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swampwalker
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$1.280- Glad you've had some success, but I'd bet a steak dinner that DJohnson54 nailed it. Almost certainly due to the DAC not supporting Windows 10. I've been getting a little itchy about Win 10 but you've now confirmed that patience (not my strong suit) is highly recommended.
zd542
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If you want an alternate solution until they fix the Win 10 drivers, you can use Linux. Its like Apple. You don't need special drivers. You can put a Linux distro on a dvd or usb stick and run it directly from that, and not touch your hard drive. All you need to do is download an iso file and burn it on a dvd. If you're interested, I can show you where to download exactly what you need. Its much easier than dealing with Windows.
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abucktwoeighty OP
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Thanks Zd542. That may be the direction I'll have to take. I'm awaiting a return call/email from the number provided by the seller. I've also heard back from the Mydac folks. They asked if I got the download from their site, which I did. They then said when I right click on the setup.exe file I should see a pop-up with multiple tabs and I should select the compatibility tab. The only tab that appears is a general tab, nothing more. I tried multiple times on all of the files and I get the same thing. So now we play phone/email tag to see if we can work it out.
Zd542, I'll be in touch if need be on your Linux offer.
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