I2s cable not working with my DAC


I just received my new HALO MAY DAC and in trying to hook it up to my PS Audio Airlen’s I get no sound with the I2S connection. It works fine with a digital cable hook up. The same thing happens with my CD player trying to use the i2s connection. I’m befuddled. 

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PS Audio uses its own configuration for I2S which doesn’t match some other items. If you do a search, you can find how to fix it. Because I have a PS Audio DAC, I had to sell a recently acquired Denafrips Iris and get the Hermes because the Iris didn’t have a configurable I2S setup whereas the Hermes did. The other issue is that a lot of I2S cables are essentially HDMI cables so they have both audio and video pins active. I don’t know enough to tell you whether certain cables such as Tubulus which I believe just have active audio pins would make a difference or not. In any event, here is one example of this discussion on another site:

https://antipodes.support/t/i2s-issues-with-ps-audio-direct-stream-dac/1176