The PHA-1 is driving me nuts. I've been trying to connect it to my Macbook Pro Retina and it simply refuses to show up. My FiiO E17 shows up just fine.
I have the USB cable connected from my MBPR's left USB port and terminating in the microUSB port on the PHA-1, with the source switch all the way to the right (Digital In / microUSB). I've got Audio MIDI Setup open on my MBPR and there's no PHA-1 showing up for digital audio on the left bar of the app.
How do I get this infernal device working with my MBPR?
EDIT: just noticed that it's stopped picking up a signal from my iPhone as well (i.e. iPhone --> PHA-1 --> headphones). Not sure what's going on. Is there a way to reset this device?
EDIT2: Right, it's detected my my Macbook Pro (model 8,2). However, in Audio MIDI Setup, I have set the format to 96,000 Hz, 2ch-24bit Integer, and now the singers sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks. This is very odd.
EDIT 3: Turned out to be a bad USB cable. But still not able to figure out why
- PHA-1 works just fine with iTunes
- choppy sound when using Amarra 2.4.5 or Audirvana. Setting format to 96kHz results in The Chipmunks (doesn't happen with iTunes, using the same track)