[Ragnar-BY]

I2S in Holo May have Psaudio standard?

It’s pinout is switchable

 

[vonBaron]

How?

 

[iFi audio]

It’s pinout is switchable

That's very useful given that I2S isn't standarized.

 

[Ragnar-BY]

How?

https://www.kitsunehifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/May-Manual-English-V1.2.pdf

Page 7 and page 10.

 

[iFi audio]

https://www.kitsunehifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/May-Manual-English-V1.2.pdf

Page 7 and page 10.

This should limit the risk of not connecting with a transport for sure.

 

[Ragnar-BY]

This should limit the risk of not connecting with a transport for sure.

Do you have any particular model in mind?

I was thinking about trying I2S, but don’t know what to look at. USB-I2S converters are pointless, because USB input of the DAC already acts like one. I assume we need some kind of network transport, which will output I2S directly without any USB conversions in the chain.

 

[iFi audio]

I was thinking about trying I2S, but don’t know what to look at.

Soundaware has some transports with I2S outputs, but haven't heard any so... yeah

 

[vonBaron]

Do you have any particular model in mind?

I was thinking about trying I2S, but don’t know what to look at. USB-I2S converters are pointless, because USB input of the DAC already acts like one. I assume we need some kind of network transport, which will output I2S directly without any USB conversions in the chain.

USB input in May is nothing special.

 

[Ragnar-BY]

USB input in May is nothing special.

Interesting opinion. What you were comparing to?

I like May's USB. I use Roon via opticalRendu and CD-transport (Cyrus CDt-XR). CDt sounds better thin ripped CDs through Roon, but so it was with any other DAC. I think it's just because CDs are better somehow. Howeverl, opticalRendu is very good and when it comes to HiRes recorded music it's even better than CDt.

 

[vonBaron]

To my M2Tech Evo Two + Clock, coaxial connection is significant better.

 

[Ragnar-BY]

To my M2Tech Evo Two + Clock, coaxial connection is significant better.

There is no USB out in M2Tech Evo. What you were comparing M2Tech's coaxial to?

 

[vonBaron]

To USB intput in May?

 

[Ragnar-BY]

Ok. You connected M2Tech to coaxial input in May. What was connected to USB input in May? I mean, to compare two DAC inputs you need two sources of equal quality. M2Tech was one, what was another?

 

[vonBaron]

My PC

 

[Ragnar-BY]

Sound out of regular PC USB always should be worse than out of specialized interface like M2Tech. PC generates electrical noise, have low quality clocks etc. It’s normal and represents not a difference between inputs, but a difference between outputs.