earlier Musical Fideltiy V-LInk to new V-Linkll

I believe Lars Audio is the finished product part of a DIY company named Gigawork. Do you know if the galvanic isolation is built in or just refers to the optical connection? I cannot find any information other than the ebay ad. Note this is a Honk Kong based company.

Hi DTC,
Yes, Gigawork does take some of the best from the DIY community and further develops it. I belong to a couple of those forums also, thats how I found it and yes again, it does have galvanic isolation on the USB as well as a seperate power input for 5v to 7v. It outputs at all except 24/88.1 and 24/176.2. I had several of those files and had to convert them. Decided to go to 24/44.1. They still sound excellent.
Ebay has a note that Gigawork is on vacation. I hope this info helps someone. It really does do a great job.
This is a copy & paste from My Ebay, I have it saved:

•Accepts data up to 24 bit/192 kHz
•USB powered
•Asynchronous USB transfer, re-clocking with a fixed low jitter crystal clock
•Galvanic isolation between USB and the analog circuits, which means no noise from the computer will be transferred to your amplifier
•Super low noise power supply with multi-stage regulation and filtering
•For low out-of-band noise we use low order modulator
•For a more "analog" behavior (no pre-ringing) we use a digital filter with minimum phase
•The analog output stage is a high performance stage with high drive capability

Timlub - thanks for the info. So, just to be clear - there is gavlanic isolation on the ground and on the data lines? Any idea why it does not do 88 and 176? Is is possible they only have one clock in there? This looks like an interesting option to V-Link and HiFace, although I would like to have the 88 KHz output. It is not common, but there are certainly high rez downloads at 88 KHz.Thanks.

Timlub - looks like the Cmedia CM6610 USB interface chip does not support 88 or 176 KHz, so that is the limitation.

Hi Dtc,
I haven't opened it up, but I do have photo's saved. The ads clearly say Galvanic isolation all over the place. They don't tell you that it won't play 24/88 or 24/176, I found that on my own and upon emailing they confirmed. They use the Cmedia new CM6610 true USB 2.0 high speed chips. I know that Schiit uses a newer version of this on the Bifrost and there have been lots of post that there are issues playing the same files. My understanding though is that this is the sole difference between the Schiit chip(cm6631?) and this, so my guess is that this chip is the cuprit of why it will not pass these files.
My DAC does have a USB in using the Tenor 7022 which is 24/96 and in this case is not Asynchronous. The Lars Converter, clearly improved over the stock usb in with a touch of focus to instrument placement, It clearly improved just a touch of tightness in the bass and it clearly improved high end extension. I first used this powered by my USB only, it was quiet and smooth, before it was ever completely burned in, I found a 6v 1 amp walwart that I had previously added a cap to and replaced the cord on both ends with heavier guage, surprisingly nice little power supply and I put it on and never really compared or worried about galvanic isolation again.