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YOUNG DSD
DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER AND PREAMPLIFIER

REVISION 1.1 – march 2014

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The first one is FooBar (

www.foobar2000.org

). FooBar is able to work in all modes

accepted by the YOUNG DSD: Direct Sound, Kernel Streaming, WASAPI and ASIO.
Skipping installation instructions, which are beyond this manual’s scope, we explain
how to configure FooBar in ASIO mode, which is the optimal choice for the YOUNG
DSD.

Foobar offers ASIO support through the installation of a specific DLL. It must be
downloaded from the “Components” section of the FooBar website, from the page

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_out_asio

NOTE: Unlike many other FooBar DLL’s, which are contained in a zip file and
must be manually extracted and copied into the “Components” folder inside
FooBar’s root folder, the ASIO file which is downloaded from the FooBar
website is an application which automatically installs the DLL in the right
folder, without any explicit action by the user. It only needs to be launched by
double-clocking its icon.

Once the operation above is done, FooBar can be launched to access the
configuration windows by typing CTRL+P, or selecting the menu item “Preferences”
from the “File” menu. Then, select the sub-menu item “Output”, which should also
have a lower menu level called “ASIO”: The window shown in Fig. 47 will appear.

Select “ASIO: MUSBAudio ASIO Driver” in the dropdown menu called “Device”.
FooBar is then ready to use the YOUNG DSD as the output device in ASIO mode, to
play bit-perfect PCM audio up to 384kHz and 32 bit.

It is now necessary to set FooBar for DSD file playback. To this purpose, it is
necessary to install another DLL, the one for SACD compatibility, which can be
downloaded from the Sourceforge website:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/files/latest/download