The spec on this little dac is very much up to the moment with support for pcm up to 384khz and quad dsd dsd256 as well as the totally audiophile dxd format. I have a nuforce icon 2 dacamp and occasionally have. The 24wx2 icon amp serves as a companion piece to the icon hdp. View and download nuforce icon hdp user manual online. Hey guys, is there an optimal volume level for the dac 80. Aug 10, 2010 nuforce udac 2 is a highperformance usb digital audio converter 24bit96khz that connects your personal computers audio with your home stereo, desktop sound system, or headphones. It has not happened in a while but enough to annoy me. Peachtree audio x1 vs nuforce 192s usb 2 spdif convertors. The nuforce udac 2 is a highperformance, 24bit96khz usb digital audio converter dac that connects your personal computers audio to your home stereo, desktop sound system, or headphones to deliver superior sound. The new udac 2 takes the same concept, but is now challenging much spendier, audiophile products, at a still low cost. Jan 25, 2009 a single pair of rcas completes the linelevel input features. In addition to their higherend, higherpriced side, nuforce has two other product lines. Nuforce introduced its udac 2 signature gold edition usb digital audio converter for headphone enthusiasts. There are three inputs, usb digital, stereo rca, and stereo minijack, along with a minijack line.
I also have a schiit audio magni 2 uber paired with a schiit modi 2 uber. When using sensitive earphones like my jh5s and ck10s the static and other noise being sent out was just too much. It was a growing force and all over the hifi industry at one point. Ess sabre hyperstream dac for the best file conversion optimized for use with inear and some overear headphones can be used as both high grade dsd dac as well as high resolution headphone amp usb powered, no external power supply required hear more dsd files generate a wider range of sound than cds so you hear more of the detail. The icon2 usb drivers selfinstalled without a hitch im using windows 7. Starting with the dac, the icon has a highprecision 32bit dac the manufacturer is not named. Nuforce udac 2 is a highperformance usb digital audio converter dac that connects your personal computers audio with your home stereo, desktop sound system, or headphones. Rockport technologies speaker drivers february 2020. I own another nuforce device an icon hdp headphone dac amp combo, and i had no trouble reaching nuforce customer service via email when this device experienced a problem. Later on, i compared the ido with my dacport usb dac headphone amp while playing itunes on my mac mini.
Nuforce udac 2 is a highperformance usb digital audio converter 24bit96khz that connects your. From what i understand, it looks like it is using windows usb audio driver. That said, it is hard to imagine someone who objectively would find the udac2 anything less than a good value, assuming you need both a headphone amp and dac, but dont need a batterypowered unit that provides an analog input. It was no mean feat to get all the sockets on that tiny rear panel, and the designers had to pull a trick or two out of the hat. Nuforce icon hd dac driver download list description. If youre a gamer, the udac3 delivers realistic sound effects that really put you in the game.
The icon2 is a desktop amplifier with a headphone amp and digital to analog converter built in. The udac2 digital analog converter from nuforce proves. What the icon unquestionably is is a fine little piece of audio engineering. This usb powered, portable dac will improve just about anything you feed it. An absolute delight only a really good headphone amplifier dac can deliver. Nuforce icon2 integrated desktop amplifier and usb dac. The company recently supplied us with a test sample of the icon udac2, which is basically a usb dac and headphone amp in a small 2.
The udac 2 itself though sets a new standard in the usb dac market. Yup, the icon is an integrated amp with a dac inside. At work or on the go, if you own a computer and love music you need the optoma nuforce udac3. The udac3 surprised us with its qualities, all in a very small package, easy to carry and use. The cable uses the standard usb a connector found commonly on many printers, and should be very useful if one happens to misplace the original. Please scroll down to find a latest utilities and drivers for your nuforce icon hd dac driver. And that headphone jack on the front panel has its own discrete op amp. Jan 05, 2012 if i had to guess, id say nuforce set out to make a dac and headphone amp that sounded really good, not necessarily great with the udac2.
Mar 04, 2015 the very small nuforce udac3 offers a lot of qualities given its 149 price point. Nevertheless, nuforce released an asio driver for windows which allows you. The nuforce icon2s applications as the core of a desktop audio system, the icon2 connects to an ipod, cd player, pc or mac. With that in mind, i auditioned the icon in three settings. The udac 2 sge combines a usb dac and a headphone amp into one ultraportable device, for those seeking highperformance audio from their. The very small nuforce udac3 offers a lot of qualities given its 149 price point. Were confident that you will find the nuforce dac9 digitaltoanalog converter, preamp and headphone amp to be the ideal answer to your listening requirements. The nuforce udac is a highperformance usb digital audio converter. When i say portable i mean its tiny enough to be portable but you cannot use it with your ipod on the go because the udac 2 does. But at this price point, i think the performance is very very good, and i really am being too demanding when i said that the udac 2 needs to be more such and such. A lightweight dac champion if youre looking to make a relatively modest investment that pays big audio dividends, optomas nuforce udac5 is a sure bet.
The nuforce icon dac is fitted with a typeb asynchronous usb port, two stereo. Try a driver checking tool such as driveridentifier software. Jun 02, 2012 for grins, we also compared the performance of the nuforce cube to nuforces icon udac2 and headrooms micro dac and micro amp combo. On the rear panel, you can find analog rca inputs, a usb 2. The idos dac is much the same as the one used in nuforce s udac2, but the maximum sample rate is 48khz, with up to 24bit resolution. As there are many drivers having the same name, we suggest you to try the driver tool, otherwise you can try one by on the list of available driver below. Nuforces secondgeneration icon is an audiophilegrade integrated desktop amplifier featuring two 24watt outputs for speakers, a 3. When we first auditioned the original nuforce udac, we were quite pleased. This reduces jitter in the usb digital signal path, increasing technical. Nuforce icon, classd aintegrated amplifier and usb dac, a listening test on tntaudio, internet hifi magazine. It isnt spacious like the icon hd which is an awesome product but it sure sounds fine with some of the hidden details in the recordings no longer getting drowned out in the poor analog circuitry of my nuforce udac 2.
Integrated 225 driving a pair of aperion audio verus grand speakers. The icon 2 itself has 3 inputs, one 18 trs socket like a headphone socket, a set of rca inputs red and white sockets, and the typeb usb socket if you want to utilize the dac. The nuforce udac is probably one of the most successful entry level dac that the audio world has ever seen. Nuforce s secondgeneration icon is an audiophilegrade integrated desktop amplifier featuring two 24watt outputs for speakers, a 3. From the picture, when looking at the fiio usb dac e17 properties, it shows this info. Tablet devices running windows 8 rt are not supported. Microsoft windows, apple mac and many linux versions provide support for usb audio devices. To remedy it i have to unplug the usb cable and plug it back in. Windows 10 new build not working correctly with ampdac. The nuforce udac2 is a highperformance, 24bit96khz usb digital audio. The nuforce icon dac supports 24bit asynchronous operation and can accept pcm 32 192khz and dsd 2. Nuforce icon ido usb dac headphone amplifier page 2. It will require a driver to use the dsd on windows. Conventional binding posts for the speaker connection would have taken up most of the available space on their own so they were ditched.
Nuforce icon udac2 digitaltoanalog converterheadphone. Nuforce icon amplifier overview and full product specs on cnet. Private investigations, dire straits flac 24 bits 88,2 khz. An audiophilegrade integrated desktop amplifier featuring two 24watt outputs for speakers with a usb dac.
Its a great time to upgrade your home theater system with the largest selection at. My pc windows 10 accepted the dac with no drivers and works perfectly. I bought a power amplifier from a highend manufacture similar to nuforce in some ways. The dacports sound with the solo drum tracks from the best of chesky jazz and more audiophile tests, volume 2 sampler cd was fuller.
Aug 10, 2010 the nuforce icon udac2 is the first dac i have ever owned and with that came some unsure expectations and uncertainty. However, while i would confidently rank the hrt ms2 as a budget audiophile dac, the udac 2 is more like a well designed gadget with a good price to performance ratio. For grins, we also compared the performance of the nuforce cube to nuforce s icon udac 2 and headrooms micro dac and micro amp combo. Topping tp30 class t digital mini amplifier with usbdac. Desktop stereo integrated amplifier with builtin usb dac black. If i had to guess, id say nuforce set out to make a dac and headphone amp that sounded really good, not necessarily great with the udac 2. Buy nuforce udac3 black optoma mobile usb dac and headphone amplifier black. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. The udac 2 comes in a nicely packaged clear plastic box, but the accessory is very spartan in nature only including the 1m long usb cable. I loved the aesthetics of nuforce designs when i discovered the brand and started researching about their products last year. Nuforce udac3 black optoma mobile usb dac and headphone amplifier black. Basically, the udac was a usb dac combined with a headphone amp. Jan 19, 2011 nuforce is a brand that seems to specialize in interesting and innovative packaging for high quality audio. Nuforce icon udac2 headphone amplifier and usb dac.
May 21, 2011 the udac 2 comes in a nicely packaged clear plastic box, but the accessory is very spartan in nature only including the 1m long usb cable. Nuforce made a splash with their original icon dac, which featured a usb dac, a couple analog inputs, a 12w amp for a stereo speaker setup, and a headphone output. The nuforce udac 2 is a portable highperformance usb dac meaning digital analog converter as well as a headphone amp all together in a tiny package. They have come back and improved upon that by releasing the new hdp model. May 29, 2012 this microspeaker isnt wireless, but its got the unique ability to also function as a headphone amp and usb dac all in a footprint of 38. I again remind our readers of the standard caveat that value is a function of your budget and your needs, not my budget and my needs. Nuforce icon ido usb dac headphone amplifier innerfidelity.
Equally as important, how the usb dac performs affects sound quality. This little box reveals all this mobile usb audio device can decode just about any hires audio file you send it, including quadrate dsd. The quality and versatility of the udac 2 s performance belies its diminutive size. When i compared the icons usb dac to the computers optical spdif output fed to a musical fidelity xdacv3 which in turn was connected to the icons analog linein, there were audible differences, but not to any distracting degree. The nuforce udac2 is a highperformance, 24bit96khz usb digital audio converter dac that connects your personal computers audio to your home stereo, desktop sound system, or headphones to deliver superior sound. I have a nuforce icon 2 dacamp and occasionally have audio. Nuforce usb audio devices are designed to work with x86 architecture. Nuforce udac3 is the first micro amp dac on the romanian market which had enough courage to come to techview. The other input isnt perzackly linelevel, its a mini usb jack. Stores consistently run out of stock on the udac, and as fast as nuforce can make them, the market buys at even a faster rate. Outputs are a 18 trs socket on the front, 18 trs line out socket on the back, and the two rj45 like the plug on an ethernet cable speaker outputs. Please scroll down to find a latest utilities and drivers for your nuforce icon hdp dac driver. Nuforce icon 2 black desktop stereo integrated amplifier.
The idos dac is much the same as the one used in nuforce s udac2, but the maximum sample rate is. My old nuforce icon had a sweet spot at round 3oclock on the dial. Nuforce strives, as always, to achieve superior performance by means of the purest and therefore simplest of design concepts. The device was out of warranty, but they offered me a reasonable price to have the device fixed, issued me an rma, and sent me back a device in perfect working condition. My laptop is a relatively budget one with a noisy headphone out. Its builtin usb dac then does the secret handshake with your laptop or pc to. Wondering if this dac has a similar sort of thing, or if should be cranked all the way up and the volume controlled only by my amp. Nuforce udac 2 is a highperformance usb digital audio converter 24bit96khz that connects your personal computers audio with your home stereo, desktop sound system, or headphones. Nuforce udac2 usb dacheadphone amp playback 40 the. Nuforce icon dac is intended to work with a personal computer. To fully utilize the icon2s sonic capabilities, we recommend highquality monitor speakers with a sensitivity of 87db or higher. Its a line that talks about potential and lost opportunities. Jul 27, 2015 when i uninstall the fiio driver, then replug the e17 via usb, the driver will appear again. The udac 2 signature gold edition is a highperformance 24bit96khz usb digital audio converter that improves the sound of digital music.
The usb powered and portable udac 2 offers a high quality usb dac and headphone amp for those seeking highperformance audio from their computer music source. The nuforce dac5 is a cute little converter that ticks all the boxes spec wise and delivers an energetic and entertaining sound. Nuforce compresses a rechargeable speaker, usb dac and. Nuforce desktop usb dacs convert usb digital data to the analog signal headphones and amplifiers require. It improves upon our original dual model by providing a highly linear tocos volume control for improved channel tracking at low listening levels, a 24bit96khz usb dac, and an improved headphone amp. Just like with my udac 2, i find the idos rca lineout sound quality is better than the headphone jack, and it rivals the rca outputs of my more costly pico dac only, but without having to boot up the computer to get that sound quality from a usb dac. I tried replugging it enabling and disabling through device manager and troubleshooting. Buy nuforce udac3 black optoma mobile usb dac and headphone. My icon 2 is a usb dac amp that i have plugged some bookshelves and a sub into and sometimes while using it the audio gets all distorted and crazy. Nuforce icon udac 2 black usb dac 24bit96khz and headphone amplifier. Nuforce icon usb input integrated amplifier page 2. Nuforce icon hdp dac driver download list description. Nuforce icon udac2 usb dac headphone amplifier ebay.
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