I followed all those instructions without success.
My concern is, does that mean there’s an issue with my player?
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It likely isn’t pinging our servers correctly. When you powered it down to see if it would see the update, how long did you power it down for?
Around 30 seconds.
Might be good to leave it off for 5 minutes and see if that does the trick.
Yay! One of my favorite hdmi cables, Harmonic Tech Magic would heretofore simply not discover the sacd layer.
Now, with 2.3.1, it’s working a charm. Nice. Thanks!
OK, not to start anything, but I guess I have to say that I agree with the double-click approach as a general operation in any application. Otherwise, if you have a screen that is off or goes into some kind of sleep mode, your first click/push might do anything almost at random, unless the options are so simple that you have only two buttons widely spaced apart. I do recognize the virtues of the other side of this argument, but I wouldn’t want my own preference to be considered a “problem.” 
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Updated well over yonder.
…pumping a rare NPG (Prince) disc to get things started. Exodus.
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Good to know, plan on ordering the HT Magic cable soon.
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Same problem with same cable, also fixed with 2.3.1
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I really like the sound of this cable. Glad it’s working now.
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Sweet, glad it’s working now. Barry and co. spent a lot of time on this update. Apparently getting this to work the way they wanted proved to be far from trivial.
Do you happen to know what needed to be addressed for some cables to work?
I don’t remember the exact details but it had to do with the PST’s I2S detection being more specific and sensitive to what was hooked up downstream.
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There’s a brief of this topic in the upgrade notes.
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Hi James,
Version 2.3.1 release notes only talk about one fix (DSD layer of SACD over I2S for 3rd party DACS). Is there another update coming soon that addresses other issues that have been discussed? The big issue for me is with the USB drive using AIFF files. I sent details on this to Scott McGowan and TJ in February.
Also, I just installed 2.3.1 today in my PST and it sounds fantastic, as usual. However, it locked up twice after I cycled the power, stopping at the PS AUDIO banner on the display. I’m using a WW Silver Sphere HDMI cable to my DS DAC.
Thanks very much.
Mark
What if you convert the AIFF files to WAV? Also, keep an eye on the freezing. I haven’t heard any reports of locking up in quite a while.
James, as you suggested, I converted some AIFF files (96/24 & 88.2/24) to WAV - the WAV tracks play fine on the USB drive.
So, in the short term I’ve have to do the conversions so I can play my downloaded (purchased) music. I have shut down my older server setup as the PST is so much better. I am really enjoying playing CD/SACD discs again. I used Roon for a couple of years and it does not provide the same level of information as the booklets in the CD cases.
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Hi I just upgraded from the DMP to the new PST today and I need help on SACD playback in particular downsampled PCM 88.2khz/24 bit.
I do not use the PS Audio DAC. Rather I am using the Devialet amplifier which has AES (via XLR) input. Thus previously with the DMP when playing SACD, I would connect it using AES (via XLR) to the Devialet and the DMP would output a downsampled PCM 88.2khz/24 bit which sounded amazing!
Now with the new PST, I understand that the XLR output does not output downsampled PCM 88.2khz/24 bit and this must be done via the I2S. This does not work for me because my Devialet amplifier doesn’t have I2S input. I have a rather big collection of SACD (and single layer SACDs) and in fact started down the DMP route (and now the news PST) precisely so that I could use it to output downsampled PCM 88.2khz/24 bit through AES (via XLR). Is there a way to get the new PST to output downsampled PCM 88.2khz/24 bit through AES (via XLR) similarly to what the DMP could do? Perhaps something that can be configured via a software upgrade further down the road? Or is this a hardware issue and therefore not possible? It is already done before on the DMP and so I am assuming it shouldn’t be that difficult.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say implementing this with the PST would be really difficult. I’m going to reach out to the team and see what they think though.
Otherwise, sounds like the DSD MKII should be in your future radar screen. 
James, I would strongly recommend for the team to consider re-implementing this with the PST to be able to output downsampled PCM 88.2/24 through AES (via XLR).
- Many of us are using the PST for what it is - a truly amazing standalone transport (i.e. without the Directstream DAC) but with other DACs and amplifiers.
- Majority of these DACs and amplifiers do not have I2S but they definitely come with AES / XLR. And when fed with this downsampled PCM 88.2/24, the sound is spectacular, much of it attributed to how amazing the DMP (and now the PST hopefully) is as a standalone transport
- Without this ability to output downsampled PCM 88.2/24, for many of us there would be little incentive to upgrade from DMP to the new PST. Which is a pity, because now that I have heard how good the PST is, if it could output PCM 88.2/24 I am sure the sound quality would be even better by far compared to the DMP’s 88.2/24
- Last but not least, this has been done before i.e. with the DMP. Given the precedence it shouldn’t be that much of a stretch to implement it for the new PST
I really hope that the team at PS Audio can make this happen for the new PST.