Liquid Spark DAC

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I recently acquired a Liquid Spark DAC since my E30 died out literally from having circuit failure and started to smoke. The E30 allowed me to select whatever bit I wanted and since most music is only 16 or 24 it would be great to select that. I use Tidal and Qobuz which allows me to select 16 or 24 bit options but I don’t know if it’s playing at that or 32. Ugh confusing

When plugged in via USB from my PC, I can only select 32 bit. It does now allow me to select 16 or 24 but the LSD page states it supports all bits. Not sure why I can not.

Any news would be greatly helpful.

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So this usually means a driver is required to enable the other options. I had the Liquid Spark DAC and I noticed the same thing. I found a general xmos (this was a little bit ago, I believe the USB controller is xmos iirc) driver that worked. Enable all the options you are used to. Sadly I couldn’t find any driver on monoprice’s website for the DAC which is why I went with the general driver.

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What version of the Xmos driver did you find to get the DAC to let you select 16/24 bit? Do you have the driver file or the link?

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I can’t remember exactly but I’m pretty sure it was a Audio-GD Xmas driver that happened to work perfectly and was available for free. I’ll have to take a look on my desktop when I get home to see if I still have it.

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Oh thanks man when you have time let me know where to get it if possible. I just got the Liquid and I can’t switch to 16bit or 24 bit only 32 bit.

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Any luck with the driver? I looked online for that type found a website that was in Chinese not sure if it was it.

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So I do have a generic Xmos driver saved on my desktop, in a folder labeled liquid spark dac. Not 100% sure it’s the one I ended up using, but it’s very possible that it is otherwise I probably wouldn’t have saved it. I can probably put it on Google drive and share a link here

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give this a try and let me know, as i no longer have the dac here.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17SVduWmiRGoLBsjgLVvBPZMgbe3688BE?usp=sharing

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Thanks I will give it a try very soon and will report back see if it worked or not. Thanks!

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No problem, just keep in mind, you may need to disconnect the DAC and or restart your PC for it to take effect. Not 100% on that either though.