13.How to use the X3, X3 2nd gen or X5 as a USB DAC on a windows computer？

1. Download the latest USB DAC driver(v 3.34.0) for all X players for windows:

The DAC driver for the X5II/X3II/X5/X3

Note: this new DAC driver will not compatible with the X3II which is running FW1.4 or previous version firmware. That is to say, it is suggested to update the X3II to the latest firmware FW2.0(click here) firstly.

2. Update Windows 7 for accepting SHA256 certificates

Our driver package is signed with a SHA256 certificate. Windows 8 and 10 accept this SHA256 certificate by default.

On Windows 7 Microsoft has released a patch to also accept SHA256 certificates. You will get it through Windows update or you can be downloaded here:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46148

The description from Microsoft can be found here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3033929

Windows 7 only accepts SHA1 certificates by default. But SHA1 certificates are deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. You also don't get new SHA1 certificates from the certificate providers.

Please update your Windows 7 systems and try again installing the driver.

3. On your X player, go to System Settings->USB mode and change the mode to DAC.  Then connect it with a USB port on the computer using our provided USB cable (for desktop computers, it is recommended to connect to a port on the back of the computer directly connected to the motherboard.  The X player is compatible with both USB 2 and USB 3 ports.)

4. After unzipping the drivers downloaded in step 1, install the drivers following the steps shown here:

The user guide for installing the USB DAC driver

(note: you would need to uninstall any previous versions of drivers first.)

5. How to use more than one X player as DAC with the same computer?

After running the driver installation for the first time, the computer will support using whichever X player was connected during installation as DAC.  To support other X players you may own for use as DAC at the same time, simply connect the other player(s) to the computer by the micro USB cable, then it will automatically complete the installation.

You can go access to "Hareware and sound" -> "Sound" on the Control Panel, and check whehter the X players is recognized by the computer successfully.

(The first person to post a picture of the X3 1st gen, 2nd gen and the X5 all connected to the same computer and running as DAC may win a prize?? )