Hiface drivers

Posted by: ljcarr on 14 December 2013

Anyone here any news on the release of hiface drivers for macs running mavericks ?

Posted on: 14 December 2013 by Andrew Porter

Was told by the UK distributer that they will be available very soon! Apparently the person who developed the drivers jumped ship and went to another manufacturer.

The company ignores any direct emails. I would think they may be available within a week,but don't hold your breath!

Posted on: 14 December 2013 by Michel Werner

I have been communicating with them. I think they are having a hard time since the developer that first worked to develop the HiFace interface went away. However, they say that they are working hard to solve the problem. I do not have any reason not to believe them. I guess we are only a few weeks away from having the new software.

 

Best,

 

Michel

Posted on: 14 December 2013 by Michel Werner

As a follow up to my post, find the message I got from Marco Manunta from M2tech:

 

Dear friends,
 
as usual, some of you are receiving this e-mail for the first time. Of course, there is a problem with our first generation products (hiFace, hiFace Evo, Young and Vaughan) and Mavericks. We're developing a new driver and as the process takes time, we regularly give news about that to all users waiting for the new driver.
 
We made some advancements and need to solve some problems in the way the driver talks with the kernel. To speed up things, we have hired an external consultant who's helping us. This is necessary as Apple gives no support to small companies like ours.
 
I'd also give you some more information about the reason why we're taking so long to release the driver while some competitors who use our technology already have a driver. The fact is that the person who developed our previous drivers is the same person who developed the present 10.9 drivers for the competitors. He got a lot of money from us (and I mean A LOT) for the drivers and their maintainance, and spent more than 6 months to wrote them. Then he recently disappeared to make a company of his own and refused to support us anymore, with the clear purpose of having an advantage in competition. He's supplying our competitors are they have now become his customers (so, double damage). He was so fast to release their driver as he has all source codes he neve gave us. That's why we're taking some time to rewrite it from the scratch.
 
We're not leaving anybody back, we just need a little time and your patience to do our job in the best way.
 
 
Best,
 
Michel
Posted on: 15 December 2013 by Sundance
Does that mean the new 32bit USB won't work on MAC?
Posted on: 15 December 2013 by Sundance
Do u think this is better than the Audioquest Dragonfly?
Posted on: 15 December 2013 by SAT

Very interested too. Sent Marco an email suggesting he offer HiFace 2 at a discount to existing customers, no comment. Posted the problem here also last month, now feel if I spend more it might be elsewhere (Audiophilleo or JKenny Ciunas?) there is a link on a site for computer audiophiles (hint) on this topic.