A Japanese audiophile friend sent me one of these, mentioning that he had bought it on Temu. There are about 10 variants of this on Temu, ranging in price from R25 to R260. This is the most expensive one.
I was a bit skeptical about using a 3,5mm stereo jack as the output connector, but Taiko also included a well-made lead with 2 x RCA plugs on the other end. The fit of the plug into the socket is firm and positive. He said one of their club tech guys swapped the 3.5mm socket for 2 x RCA plugs, with no apparent improvement
There is a circuit board inside the USB-C connector with 2 chips on the board, a CS464L41 and a Bravo SA9302. The latter is a well-known DAC chip which can handle PCM 32 / 384kHz and DSD256 (see specs below)
Being a USB-C connector, I used a USB-C to B adaptor. In a USB-C plug, two of the pins near the centre ensure it is backwards compatible to USB 2.0
What does it sound like? Compared to the analogue output of an ASUS sound card, which is anyway streets ahead of the Realtek sound card, it is crisper and the additional detail is immediately evident. Extended listening showed that there is a lack of warmth in some classical music, particularly solo violin
But at this price, a step up from most better PC audio cards. Not as revealing as a Devialet, but close. And a small fraction of the price
Link: https://www.temu.com/za/usb-type-c-...r-snr128db-32b-384khz-g-601099520406579.html?
Support iAP2
USB 2.0 High-Speed Compliant
Bravo Tech*1 supporting Jitter-less outputs using local clock in Async-mode
Isochronous input and output endpoints for recording and playback
Support Dynamic Consumption Adjustment
One interrupt endpoint for HID
One DSD interface for connect with external DSD DAC
Support DSD64 / DSD128 / DSD256 both of native and DoP in Async mode
Support DSD L/R data line swap feature
Support resolutions up to 32-bit and sampling rates up to 384KHz
One I2S input and one I2S output pairs for PCM
Independent sample rates for each pair
32/ 44.1/ 48/ 88.2/ 96/ 176.4/ 192/ 352.8/ 384 KHz sampling rates
16/24/32 bit resolution
Built in IEC60958 professional S/PDIF TX
AES/EBU supported
SCMS for copyright supported
Stereo S/PDIF Output
32/ 44.1/ 48/ 88.2/ 96/ 176.4/ 192/ 352.8/ 384 KHz sampling rates
16/24 bit resolution
DSD with S/PDIF TX
Control and I/O
I2C bus
FWIOs
49-pin WLCSP packages
I was a bit skeptical about using a 3,5mm stereo jack as the output connector, but Taiko also included a well-made lead with 2 x RCA plugs on the other end. The fit of the plug into the socket is firm and positive. He said one of their club tech guys swapped the 3.5mm socket for 2 x RCA plugs, with no apparent improvement
There is a circuit board inside the USB-C connector with 2 chips on the board, a CS464L41 and a Bravo SA9302. The latter is a well-known DAC chip which can handle PCM 32 / 384kHz and DSD256 (see specs below)
Being a USB-C connector, I used a USB-C to B adaptor. In a USB-C plug, two of the pins near the centre ensure it is backwards compatible to USB 2.0
What does it sound like? Compared to the analogue output of an ASUS sound card, which is anyway streets ahead of the Realtek sound card, it is crisper and the additional detail is immediately evident. Extended listening showed that there is a lack of warmth in some classical music, particularly solo violin
But at this price, a step up from most better PC audio cards. Not as revealing as a Devialet, but close. And a small fraction of the price
Link: https://www.temu.com/za/usb-type-c-...r-snr128db-32b-384khz-g-601099520406579.html?
Support iAP2
USB 2.0 High-Speed Compliant
Bravo Tech*1 supporting Jitter-less outputs using local clock in Async-mode
Isochronous input and output endpoints for recording and playback
Support Dynamic Consumption Adjustment
One interrupt endpoint for HID
One DSD interface for connect with external DSD DAC
Support DSD64 / DSD128 / DSD256 both of native and DoP in Async mode
Support DSD L/R data line swap feature
Support resolutions up to 32-bit and sampling rates up to 384KHz
One I2S input and one I2S output pairs for PCM
Independent sample rates for each pair
32/ 44.1/ 48/ 88.2/ 96/ 176.4/ 192/ 352.8/ 384 KHz sampling rates
16/24/32 bit resolution
Built in IEC60958 professional S/PDIF TX
AES/EBU supported
SCMS for copyright supported
Stereo S/PDIF Output
32/ 44.1/ 48/ 88.2/ 96/ 176.4/ 192/ 352.8/ 384 KHz sampling rates
16/24 bit resolution
DSD with S/PDIF TX
Control and I/O
I2C bus
FWIOs
49-pin WLCSP packages
