Clemens wrote:

Does this device (with this cable) work in Windows or OS X?

Definitely.

Let me now reset my PC so that it will boot from its Windows7 partion.

With Audacity and a vendor supplied control software, my Orpheus plays 44.1kHz 2-ch sound perfectly.

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I have been using my PrismSound Orpheus successfully with

juju+ffado+jackd as:

for more than five years, not with the same PC but with the same cable, during which time I have never experienced a trouble.

And before doing clean install of Ubuntu 15.04 (kernel 3.16) a few days ago, I confirmed that:

% jackd -R -dfirewire -r44100 -p4096 -n3 & % aplay -D pcm.jack test.wav or % alsaplayer -i text -o jack -d "system:playback_1,system:playback_2" test.wav

works all right on Ubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.13.

So I have an impression that this is not a hardware but a software problem, perhaps specific to snd-bebob..

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At the moment, a missing packet results in the driver just stopping the stream. There would be better ways to handle this, but I haven't yet found the time to implement this.

Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you again for taking your time.

Regards, Mike Ood