Usually in such a situation a coble is in the wrong port or a switch got flipped. No matter how careful you are, errors happen. recheck the entire setup. You have proven it works.
Zenith MkIII problem – Roon no longer recognizes my usb DAC when connected to Zenith
My Innuos Zenith MKIII worked great with no issues for 2 years. I left it on 24-7 only rebooting once or twice a month to clear the cache.
While working fine for about two years, the Zenith was configured as follows:
In this configuration, Roon recognized the BMC Ultra DAC as a UPNP device when connected via usb cable to the Zenith’s “DAC” usb port.
However, after I purchased a new rack, disconnected all components carefully, labeled each wire, set the components aside and then hooked everything up the same way on the new rack, Roon would not find the BMC DAC no matter what I did.
Usually if the Roon could not find the DAC, simply rebooting the Zenith, waiting for the blue light on the Zenith, and then turning on the DAC solved the problem. But this time, no amount of rebooting, changing cables, ethernet and usb cables, switching the ethernet connection from the Zenith “Lan” port to the Zenith “Server” port and checking my Roon settings -- using the Zenith, per Roon’s settings, as a Roon “StandAlone”, or as a Roon “Endpoint” -- solved the problem.
Ultimately, to check that the DAC worked, and that the ethernet connections to and on the Zenith worked, I hooked up an extra ProJect StreamBox S2 Ultra between the Zenith and the DAC
That worked.
In that configuration, Roon found the StreamBox, and the Zenith worked just fine as a Roon core.
The only thing that changed between Roon finding the Ultra DAC and not finding the Ultra DAC was unhooking everything and reinstalling it on a new rack and installing the latest Innuos update, version 2.2.5.
I am hoping that someone here knows how to get the Zenith to work as a server so that Roon will find the DAC and I no longer have to use the StreamBox in my main system. I would greatly appreciate any tips, solutions or mention of issues that I may have overlooked.
Thanks,
Marc