(11-Oct-2014, 03:25)adstew Wrote: Back home and listening to the Aurender with the Berkeley. The Wireworld Platinum Starlight USB cable works fine when going from the Aurender to the Devialet but does not work when going from the Aurender to the Berkeley. I substituted a different USB and all is good. Not sure why as the Berkeley shows it is getting signal with both.
Sound is very good with the Alpha USB. Full, rich...listening to Beck's Morning Phase and all sounds great. More listening to do.
First post on this site, Hello All.
Been following this issue as I am considering an X100 and have an Alpha USB. A dealer in Texas, Galen Carol Audio, has had great success with the ALPHA USB with the X100l and highly recommends it while a dealer in Santa Monica claims that they are incompatible. Furthermore, spurred on by the comments from the Californian dealer I emailed Aurender and received a reply from Eric Shim, of Aurender agreeing there is a compatibility issue between the Berkeley Alpha USB and Aurender...confusing at best.
Works for some and not others..email exchange below.
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Subject: Berkeley Audio Alpha USB
OCT 02, 2014 | 07:19PM KST
Eric replied:
Hello
I forgot to tell you about it only has a problem when you play 176.4 or higher sampling rate.
Best regards,
Eric Shim
SEP 24, 2014 | 06:03PM KST
Eric replied:
Hello
No, problem. Yes, it is related to W20 has this issue, but in case you have W20, you don’t need Berkley USB Alpha. :-)
Best regards,
Eric Shim
SEP 24, 2014 | 03:53PM KST
Wdw replied:
Hello Eric,
Thank you for your reply. Is this compatibility issue true for the W20 as well as the X100L?
Wdw
SEP 24, 2014 | 02:44PM KST
Eric replied:
Hello
First of all, thank you for your interest in
The information is correct. At this point, Berkeley Alpha USB has the compatibility issue with Aurender and we don’t have a plan to fix this issue at this point.
Actually, it is not the chipset issue since other DACs with same issue works without this issue.
Best regards,
Eric Shim
SEP 24, 2014 | 02:16PM KST
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Wdw wrote:
Hello,
I am contemplating a purchase of the X100L to use with my Berkeley DAC and Alpha USB. I was speaking to a dealer in the USA ( there are no dealers here in Canada ) and he mentioned there is a conflict between the chipset in the Berkeley Audio Alpha USB and the Aurender recommending that these two not be paired together. Can you offer any insight on this matter?
