Recent content by ihmeyers

The Roon connection now is not through the network. Only the Zenith has a network connection right now, not the Esoteric. Zenith DAC out to Esoteric USB B in. It plays fine using Roon. When using Sense, the DAC kind of sees the stream but not fully. It knows there is a USB stream coming in...

Thanks very much. I'm somewhat frustrated but not pulling my hair out. Like I said, the Zenith and the Esoteric play nicely using Roon. I'm just not sure that the sound quality using Roon and an expensive server will be any better than Lumin app and an external SSD. We'll see in a couple of...

Only the Zenith is connected to the LAN for a couple of reasons. One, my switch is in my network room which is behind the home theater, about 50 feet from the Zenith. Secondly, the Esoteric sounded awful, IMO, connected to a server/streamer and pulling data over the network (I have another...

Thanks Dan. We have one open. #41763. I'm surprised no one else had ever reported this. It's not like Innuos or Esoteric are small cottage brands. There was nothing anywhere that I found about compatibility issues between the Zenith and Esoteric products.

Zenith won't work correctly using Sense through it's USB B port. The Esoteric distributor confirmed that: "The USB-B connection on the backpanel of the N-05XD is exclusively a PC or MAC interface. It has no application for what you are hoping to achieve. The USB-A connection on the...

Thank you Frank. This is exactly what the Esoteric U.S. importer told me yesterday. I need to use the USB A connection in order to use the Zenith as just a server. Esoteric is designed only to work with Windows and MAC OS through the USB B connection. I did not know that when I bought the...

No. Not at all. I just thought that there was some upside in using an Innuos for file storage as opposed to using an external SSD. Maybe there will be (Zenith has only been plugged in for 2 1/2 days) but there is not yet. We'll see.

Good afternoon. I am new to Innuos having just purchased a pre-owned Zenith SE this weekend. Long story short, a bear to get it to work with my Esoteric N05-XD DAC/Streamer. After 2 days of trial and error, it seems like it WILL output to the DAC using Roon, but WILL NOT using Sense. That's...