Zenith mkIII not able to play native DSD with Chord mscaler and tt2 kr Emm lab dac v2?

[goone]

Hello
I have zenith mkIII and not able to play native dsd on Chord mscaler and tt2 or Emm lab dac v2?
Am i missing something?
Thanks

 

[frank7036]

Hello
I have zenith mkIII and not able to play native dsd on Chord mscaler and tt2 or Emm lab dac v2?
Am i missing something?
Thanks

As far as I can see the M scaler doesn’t support DSD. I suggest you remove it from the data/signal chain.

 

[frank7036]

EMM manual says DAC2 supports DSD64 and DSD 128 via USAB.

 

[frank7036]

EMM manual says DAC2 supports DSD64 and DSD 128 via USAB.

Fat finger , sorry USB

 

[Stephen Healy]

As Frank says, the Chord does not process DSD natively, it converts it into PCM anyway. All you can do on the Innuos side of things is switch the audio settings to 'No DSD Support' so that the Innuos transcodes to FLAC which would rather reduce the amount of work the Chord subsequently has to do.

 

[goone]

Interesting, thank you

 

[frank7036]

Interesting, thank you

connect the USB of the Innuos directly to the EMM dac.
Choose DSD over PCM (referred elsewhere as DSD_DOP) in Innuos and it should play through the EMM, the signal is still DSD just inside a PCM wrapper to fool the DAC.
Then also try Native DSD setting in the Innuos - it might work, but if not simply revert back to DSD_DOP. You won’t hear any difference.

With the

 

[frank7036]

@goone
Also , the TT2 accepts DSD directly as an input.
So, try connecting the Innuos directly to the TT2 (bypass the M-scaler) and set the Innuos DSD as above.
You should try listening with the different setups to see which combinations sound best to you , in your system.
You can of course (as Stephen says) set the Innuos to internally convert the data stream to PCM and use the M-scaler as another alternative.

Personally , I like DSD but it is DAC dependent.
Don’t worry about what the dac does internally that’s another ballgame altogether.

 

[Stephen Healy]

I would agree with Frank here that perhaps the solution is to run a second USB cable out from the ZENith that goes straight to the TT2 or the EMM directly. Then, when you have a DSD album you want to play, just change the output device on the Innuos Audio Settings and output direct Native DSD/DoP to that DAC and just bypass the M-Scaler perhaps.
There are a few variations to try here, so might be worth experimenting to see which you think sounds best.

 

[goone]

Will do
Thanks again