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.
I had a similar experience as @Baylinor with my PS Audio SACD transport and Gustard DAC. Wound up going the path of least resistance and selling the Gustard and buying a PSA DAC. PSA customer support was extremely helpful, worked with Paul himself, figuring out the Gustard mismatch. My recommendation would be to contact PSA about the pin variations. What make I2S cable are you using? I had the most success with Audioquest. Rich |
I would try a different cable to rule out the possibility of a bad cable. You can get a cheap Monoprice for that exercise.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014RONV5K?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1
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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 |
