A: No, the hiFace won’t probably either be recognized by the system, or i twill be recognized and an error message will be produced as soon as it will
be accessed.
Q: May I connect the hiFace to a USB 3.0 port?
A: It depends on the operating system: with Windows 8 or later, Linux and MAC OSx you may, while an unresolved bug in Windows 7 and earlier
leads to system lock-up.
Q: May I connect the hiFace to my iPad?
A: No, because iOS has no driver to handle it.
Q: May I connect the hiFace to an Android tablet?
A: No: while the Linux driver exists, no official porting to Android is available.
Q: Is it possible to use hiFace to transfer compressed multi-channel data (AC3, DTS)?
A: Theoretically it is, provided a bit-perfect transfer mode (Kernel Streaming or WASAPI under Windows) is used. Anyway, the results also depends
on how the recipient of data (audio/video receiver, multi-channel DAC) detects multi-channel data: as the hiFace doesn’t encode the related
information in the channel status bits, whereas the recipient use channel status information to detect multi-channel, then the connection won’t work.
Q: Is it possible to transfer DSD with the hiFace?
A: Sure, provided DSD is DoP (DSD over PCM) encoded and a bit-perfect transfer mode is selected ( Kernel Streaming or WASAPI under
Windows).
Q: Is it possible to transfer 32-bit data with the hiFace?
A: No: S/PDIF standard only allows for transferring 24-bit data at most. Selecting 32-bit format on the player doesn’t imply that all bits in a sample are
delivered to the recipient: actually, the 8 least significant bits in each sample are ignored.
Q: Is it possible to use more than one hiFace on the same computer?
A: Yes it is. The only drawback is that all hiFaces will be exposed with the same name in the list of audio peripherals, thus it will be difficult to tell one
from the other.
Q: Does the hiFace perform sampling frequency conversion?
A: No, it doesn’t.
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