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USB to Dual Coax Bridge for Qutest DAC

I'm considering purchasing an Audiowise SRC-DX USB to Dual-Coax Bridge.  This would replace the current Curious Cable Evolve USB connection from my Innuos Phoenix USB and Chord Qutest DAC.  Looking at a relatively inexpensive tweak, that's supposed to have a significant impact on the performance of my DAC and SQ of my streaming experience.  My current set up sounds excellent, but not as good as my other source components listed below.

Anyone have experience with USB to Coax converters?  Coax cables? Interested in your comments and feedback.

My streaming set up is Innuos Zenith Mk3 (with 4TB SSD and Qobuz), Innuos Phoenix USB, Chord Qutest DAC with Sbooster PSU.  I'm committed to the Quest and not interested in chasing DAC Nirvana by upgrading to a TT2, DAVE, or any other DAC priced at $5K or above.

My system is an Anthem MRX 540 pre-amp, Anthem MCA 325 power amp, B&W 804s, B&W CC and Surrounds, REL S/510 sub (only room for one), Denon DCD A110 SACD player (my best source component), Modwright Oppo105 universal player, EAT C Sharp turntable with Sutherland phono pre-amp. 

Thanks! 

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Are you talking about a fuse on the Bricasti? There’s no fuse there. Find a little button on the back of the Bricasti dac by the power cord and press it. That’s the “breaker” so to speaker. That should get the dac back up and running.
USB card in the m3 should be compatible with your streamer.

Get everything connected properly. Take your time with it. Turn it all on after all the cables are connected.
Use the settings on the M3 that I recommended. And try again.

I want to believe the seller wouldn’t sell you a paperweight with the kind of feedback he has.

One other test you can do is connect a coax or toslink cable from a dvd plsyer if you have one to the m3 and play a cd. See if you get sound.

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I’ll add - do not make any connections between your components when they’re powered on or in standby. Turn it all off/power down and if you have to, unplug from  outlet. 

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@audphile1 

Thank you for your continued support.

The fuse on my Innuos Zenith mk3 blew when I rebooted it last night.  I have a bad back and replacing it is a big tricky for me.

In the interim, I will buy an inexpensive coax cable from Amazon and hook it up to my Oppo universal player and run it through the Bricasti and see if I get any sound.

Thank you and I’ll sign in and report the results later.

 

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Sounds good! 

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drlou77 OP
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@audphile1 BINGO!  My streamer is still down, but I bought a SPDIF cable and hooked it up as per your instructions.  Repeated steps, but this time I switched the input on the Bricasti to IN2.  Push play on my Oppo and, voila, Free Falling, by Tom Petty came blasting out of my B&W 804s.  Whew!

Now, I need to replace the fuse in my Innuos streamer, switch to IN4, and test it out.  Question: do I have to reboot the DAC (circuit breaker) after I switch the input from IN2 to IN4?
 

Thanks!

drlou77 a/k/a Rich

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