Halide Bridge vs hiFace Evo vs Sonicweld 192

Based on his resume, I believe Steve Nugent (Audioengr) probably knows what he's talking about.

From the Empirical Audio website:
"Steve Nugent...is an Electrical Engineer with 25 years digital design experience in the computer industry designs all of our products. He has a broad experience in digital system and interface design, board layout, transmission-lines and other relevant technologies. Steve was a design-team lead on the Pentium II at Intel Corp. and holds 22 patents in various cable and digital technologies.

I also tried the hiFace Evo. It wouldn't work. Set up is simple enough on OS X. It showed under Sound>Output once the driver was installed, but the sound only came out the built in speakers.
Sakahara (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

I'm not going to try too hard to convince you otherwise, but I do want to share my experience using a HiFace and Pure Music.

I also had the issue of sound coming only out of the Mac computer's built in speakers. Drove me nuts. Had the whole computer front end up for sale. Ready to throw in the towel.

Then, I recalled that my DAC was capable of a maximum sampling rate of 96Khz. Up until that "Ah-Ha!" moment, I had thought it was capable of 192Khz. I went to check the configuration setting in Pure Music's Advance Audio Set-up, and sure enough, I had selected 192Khz as the target output sampling rate for the HiFace. When I changed this setting to 96Khz, I finally had excellent sound through my system's speakers.

I see the Reimyo DAP-777 has a choice of 48Khz of 44.1Khz. Just in case you haven't checked, you might take a look and see if you configured the Evo in Pure Music for a target output sampling rate of no higher than 48Khz. This just might do the trick.

Be sure to do the same in the Apple Midi application.

I agree with you that computer audio is not plug-and-play. It can be a PITA.

01-25-11: Sakahara
Everything looked fine, power on,..etc, except for the fact that it would only play through the internal speakers.

You have to select it to play through the external speakers in the Apple Midi application. It will not do play through the external speakers automatically (the Apple Built-In Output is the default). Selecting it to play through the external speakers is not intuitive in my experience.

I had to highlight the HiFace in the menu of available output devices, then two-finger tap on the trackpad to pull up the configuration menu, and then select the external speakers from the configuration menu. I you didn't get this far (and I can understand how you might not have), then it was a configuration error and not a hardware problem.

I know you've moved on, so I'm mentioning this for future readers who may encounter the same issue.

01-26-11: Sakahara
I've been using computers since '95 (self taught/administrator on UNIX/IRIX SGI, WIN DOS/NT/2K/XP, and MAC OS X).

There was no mention on the M2Tech website about a driver being needed.

All USB devices require drivers. It would seem a UNIX/IRIX SGI, WIN DOS/NT/2K/XP, and MAC OS X administrator would know this.

Did you configure the Evo to output sound via external speakers in the Apple Midi Setup application (did the application display the speaker icon next to the Evo)?

Well...it seems you have made an excellent decision to move on!