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Specific i2s cable for use with Sonnet Morpheus DAC & 3rd party DDC

Greetings,

I'm considering buying a Sonnet Morpheus. Reviewers seem to strongly favor using the i2s input on the Morpheus. I understand I can purchase a DDC (ex: Denafrips Hermes) to convert my music servers USB output into a i2s signal.

On their website Sonnet clearly tells the customer that their i2s input uses a non-conventional "pin configuration for the i2s input.

What I don't understand is the following: Must the i2s cable have its pin configuration custom configured for both the output (On the DDC device) as well as on the receiving end (i2s input on the Sonnet)?

More to the point- Does anyone know of a specific i2s cable that is compatible with the Sonnet Morpheus?

Thanks 

 

 

matsaly

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soix
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The advantages of I2S are also greatly exaggerated

@carlsbad2 Well, I can tell you when I switched from USB to i2S into my Musician Pegasus R2R DAC through a Denafrips Iris DDC and a $6 HDMI cable from Monoprice the improvement was very significant and many others here have experienced the same (I’d ask @vthokie84 to share his experience with his Pontus II as well as it’s also pertinent here).  Obviously this will vary by a given DAC’s implementation of its various inputs, but i2S is clearly superior in my case — not even close.  Here’s a review where the reviewer used a DDC to use i2S on a few different DACs (including mine) and was very impressed by the improvement over USB, and his findings are similar to mine.  

https://soundnews.net/accessories/level-up-your-dac-musician-phoenix-ddc-review/

Given all this it begs the question, have you ever even actually used an i2S connection to a DAC in your system?

soix
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@dalims4 It appears that Jerry is just making stuff up here that is either based on nothing or is just flat-out inaccurate. Not sure why he dislikes i2S so much.

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