iFi Audio Pro iDSD discussion thread

[iFi audio]

greetings

i hooked my ifi pro to my home system amp, my home system amp has no remote control

so i tried using the ifi as dac preamp and setting my volume amp on roon at 80% volume ( using ifi also as a streamer )

but i found the volume steps on ifi was not doing it for, sometimes moving the volume on ifi as preamp gave me too much volume

so i wanted to revert back to using ifi just as dac, and control the volume via roon, but somehow the volume ( device volume ) just goes either no volume or it will dial in full volume which is weird

any help with roon to control volume using ifi pro just as a dac

or if there is a more ideal way to have good voume adjustment

@iFi audio

Setting the volume in Roon Device setup should allow you DSP volume if I am correct, then use the volume control in Roon.

Hope that helps

Do you not have the remote for the unit?

If so set Roon to fixed and control preamp volume using that and adjust rotary setting on the back of DAC to variable.

HF Var...

Cheers!!

 

[Sound Eq]

Setting the volume in Roon Device setup should allow you DSP volume if I am correct, then use the volume control in Roon.

Hope that helps

Do you not have the remote for the unit?

If so set Roon to fixed and control preamp volume using that and adjust rotary setting on the back of DAC to variable.

Cheers!!

greetings

the strange think I do net have an option to set dsp volume in roon when I use the ifi pro as dac streamer, i only see device volume and fixed volume

i set my ifi pro dsd to be fixed on the back of the ifi pro dsd

 

[iFi audio]

greetings

the strange think I do net have an option to set dsp volume in roon when I use the ifi pro as dac streamer, i only see device volume and fixed volume

i set my ifi pro dsd to be fixed on the back of the ifi pro dsd

Which output are you using XLR or RCA to your amp?

Cheers!!

 

[iFi audio]

Here is a screenshot from Roon for my Pro iDSD...

 

[Sound Eq]

Which output are you using XLR or RCA to your amp?

Cheers!!

rca

 

[Sound Eq]

Here is a screenshot from Roon for my Pro iDSD...

strange why i do not get dsp volume

 

[peter1977]

I realized these two products although floating from the main earth ground, needed to be disconnected at their respective ground limited to the power strip they share. Simple. Took the available anywhere cheap power cord, some plyers and twisted to ground pin off the cord that was providing power the the iFi SMPS. VOILA!!! PROBLEM SOLVED. Output via tube amp perhaps even quieter than ever!



Now it if only ended there… Oh no. Running off the stock power supply the iFi Idsd PRO took on an even more authoritative character in the low end. Tight, musical prodigious bass that frankly seemed to be missing with the aftermarket supply. Overall detail increased, soundstage and imaging took a tick up, and speed and transient impact… YES!!! FINALLY. I knew the iFi had the incredible tone and musicality I was seeking; now I could hear how compromised it had been made divorced from its iPower supply. Now there was speed and transient power! But never, never any harshness. I can crank this thing up all day and hear nothing but fatigue free, powerful and beautiful music.

Moral of the fable? (Other than find ways to float ground other than cheater plugs) The moral is to listen to iFi when the say their custom made supply just for the iDSD is exactly and probably only what you should be using. Time and time again they have reminded us that aftermarket, even expensive ones, linear supplies won’t necessarily make it better and may even degrade the performance. It did in my case.



I can’t wait for the aforementioned DAC’s to arrive for my comparison reviews and shootouts. They had better bring big game, because my iDSD Pro is sounding better than ever!

Hello,

I have a question about this older topic.
I have an iDSD Pro and was wondering what exactly did you do with the Ifi SMPS ?

As you described above ? I’m not really following what you have done to it to make is sound better.
Can you explain/show me that please ?

Best regards,
Peter

 

[TooFrank]

Hello,

I have a question about this older topic.
I have an iDSD Pro and was wondering what exactly did you do with the Ifi SMPS ?

As you described above ? I’m not really following what you have done to it to make is sound better.
Can you explain/show me that please ?

Best regards,
Peter

Absolutely not related to the above: but I switched the tubes

 

[Assationater]

Whats the holes in the side of the pots for? Is it like a cleaning port?

 

[zuio]

How can I play files from an attached USB drive? The recommended MUZO app is not available in my country. Is there any alternative available? I use Mac OS (M-Chip) and iPhone. The pro idsd is connected to LAN network and I want to control it with macOs / iOs

EDIT: I installed the Wiim Home App - it wants to find the device via bluetooth - doesn't work.