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Re: JRiver please explain how to get DSD4x to work (resolved)

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Rizlaw:
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Thanks for the info. I am aware that standard HDMI cables are normally not intended for I2S Audio use, but that's not the setup I have (HDMI from PC to DAC). In my case, my Matrix X-SPDIF converter box is connected to my PC via the usual USB cable. The Matrix box has multiple digital outputs for coax, toslink, XLR and I2S. All of the digital outputs function simultaneously allowing the user to send the same digital signal (correctly translated for the output) to multiple DACs. It can be thought of as a sophisticated digital signal splitter/translator. In my case XLR to my Schiit Yggdrasil, which doesn't support DSD (via a Madrigal digital XLR cable) and I2S to my Wyred4Sound DAC (via Wireworld HDMI cable - decent stock HDMI cables work too). For PCM data this all works fine and as intended. However, for DoP-DSD over HDMI / I2S, as noted in the posts above, Wyred's HDMI pin outs for pins 1 and 3 are not the same as PS Audio's I2S pin outs. My Matrix converter follows the PS Audio pin outs NOT the Wyred4Sound pin outs. Thus, while my Matrix converter can handle PCM over the HDMI / I2S connection to the Wyred DAC it can not handle the DoP/DSD signal.   

Since the companies that provide a digital I2S output on their equipment, using a standard HDMI cable, have not settled or agreed upon on a standard pin out scheme, problems like this arise. In my case it's not the end of the world because a simple USB cable connection from PC to DAC works just fine for both PCM and I2S/DoP/DSD.

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