HighRes Audio through USB

I had the Z2 since last year. Because my old headphones (Sony MDR-F1) are nearly dead and the Z2 supports HighRes Audio through USB (external DAC) I bought the Sony MDR-1ADAC. I was happy, everything worked well and the headphones are killer. There were just two tiny things I didn't liked about the Z2:a) The haptic of the frame was not that goodb) the USB port behind the cover on the left side - very bad if you want to put your phone in your pocket while listening to music Thus I bought the Z3+ When I connect my Sony MDR-1ADAC through USB nothing happens on the Z3+ and music, etc. is still played through the internal stereo speakers. The Z2 had a setting that enables "external USB-DAC" and the Z3+ doesn't BUT the Z3+ additionally (compared to Z2) supports HighRes through Bluetooth and DSEE HX. So the Z3+ has better support for HighRes Audio but at the same time less support. What the heck is going on Sony?

I've recently had to add
Enable=Source,Sink,Headset,Gateway,Control,Socket,Media
to /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf. And then restart the bluetooth service / daemon.
# systemctl restart bluetooth.service
# or, whatever ...
# rc.d restart bluetooth
Then it works again. This may just be a systemd artefact, however.

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FWIW, as I was reading many of these posts, a lot of folks are suggesting that you NEED firewire for audio interfaces. Here is a link to twenty (USB) audio interfaces and that is just at one site. I myself record hi end audio for film using a M-Audio Fast Track Ultra (8 in and 8 outs) along with Logic and Final Cut Pro. Firewire is great, can have less latency, and a lot of users still have gear. I won't get into that debate, it's been beat to death. Just wanted to be accurate to any budding musicians, etc. who might be scared off by all this talk re: Firewire a necessity for pro audio. Latency (a problem 'sometimes' associated with USB devises transferring slower data) is old news. Technology has come a long way since the days of a USB 1.0 MBox. Get a new Macbook, a good audio interface, write a great song and you're in business -- all in style with your new sexy MB. Here's the link: http://www.sweetwater.com/c695--USBAudioInterfaces

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Now one of the reasons I have a macbook, is that last year my iBook died, and I needed a new notebook to go with my MOTU interface, I could just about have stretched my budget to a MBP, but seeing as they used the Lucent (Agere) firewire chipset, there was a strong chance that any decent firewire interface wouldn't work with it, and I've heard that the new MBP uses the Lucent chipset, rather than the more dependable TI one, so there's a chance that professional audio may have to skip this whole generation of notebook refreshes, that is until Apple start using a decent chipset again.
And I'm sorry, the argument that Pros would only use the Pro machine seems a little naive (see above reason), sometimes portability is a pre-requisite for a persons needs, the portability that say the old 12" Powerbook had, which many still miss. Plus as far as portability goes many firewire multi channel interfaces are bus powered, something that AFAIK you can't get with USB.
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Hello!
So, my sister has Satellite C870-1EX and she's using new Audio Mixer with intergrated sound card that sends sound through USB cable to the computer (computer recognizes it as external sound card/device). This is the device: http://alesis.com/multimix8usbfx .
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That doesn't appear to be a US model, and this is the forums for Toshiba USA. You may want to contact Toshiba in your region. If it's a European model, you could check the Toshiba Europe forums.
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