Coax to I2S

You’re forgiven.  Heh heh.  Very easy mistake to make. Understand with the Leo/Hermes you’re also getting a much better clock than the Pisces/Iris and probably better than any transport you’ll get anywhere near the price of the Leo/Hermes.  All I can say is my performance went to an entirely higher level of transparency and performance going with i2S, and if your DAC manufacturer says it’s the best input I think you should take that as a meaningful suggestion for a significant upgrade. 

Damnit. Nevermind. I saw the picture wrong. 

Hmm the musician Pisces for $520 has coax in. Thanks for the link. 

Forgot to mention the Musician Leo DDC takes SPDIF (similar unit to Denafrips Hermes) and at around $1200 while not cheap is at least a bit less expensive.

https://audioartcable.com/products/musician-leo-digital-interface

I recently added a used Denafrips Iris to enable me to use my Musician Pegasus i2S input and the improvement was huge. Even using these cheap Monoprice 0.5m cables provided a great improvement. BTW, the shorter the HDMI cable for i2S the better.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13576

You very well may be correct that there would be no to minimal difference. Interested in trying it as there has been many accounts of the I2S input being a noticeable improvement. If I could find a reasonably priced solution. 

Not interested in streaming at the moment. 

For that kinda long green you might as well get a streamer with i2s out.

But then again there is no clue to what source you are trying to convert. You MIGHT not discern any difference.