This may be related to the general settings issues. Or, as Ted stated, there was a Dual-XLR setting at one point (during the beta) but it was removed, so it’s possible a change to that carried over. The eastiest thing is to do Ted’s suggestion and start a factory reset. That will reset all your configuration to factory defaults. Let me know if that doesn’t work and I’ll work with you to get it fixed.
No worries, glad the new version is working better for you. I’ll have the new-new load out tomorrow that fixes your balance issue as well. Thanks for the feedback.
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Thank you Sir.
Wow, that is great. I am only bringing it up because some do not use a preamp. It really does not affect me personally as I do use the BHK preamp in my system. I still am operating like a beta tester looking out for others. Thanks again
John
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So like, if I have a PSA PW SACD Transport, I should invert my setting?
Set the I2S polarity settings to Normal for PS Audio gear.
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Can you burn the stereo BitPerfect test to an audio CD?
If so, according to the new firmware release notes, you can let it configure I2S polarity automatically:
BitPerfect test for I2S polarity
A stereo BitPerfect test can also be used to automatically set the PCM I2S polarity. If the BitPerfect
track is played through I2S1 or I2S2 inputs, then the DSDMK2 will automatically detect whether the
Data and LRCLK lines are inverted and set the I2S Polarity menu items appropriately. The automatic
settings can be over-ridden by going into the menus and resetting them to desired values.
You might be able to write the BitPerfect test file to a USB stick and put that in your PW transport.
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I have the mk2 and a BHK pre amp, I’m still using the pre amp’s remote as I did with mk1, the mk2 screen illuminates when I change the pre volume using the remote, I was hoping the latest UI update would fix this, how can I stop this?
Yes, the factory reset suggested by Ted worked well.
I now have the normal XLR behavior: as in the previous firmware version the XLR button on the remote can be used to toggle between XLR 1 and XLR 2.
I’ve got my head spinning with this polarity business. Am I right in saying that you are finding that setting I2S polarity to inverted gets you to the same polarity convention as all of the other legacy PSA gear? I’m baffled because this seems to contradict the current experience I am having.
I’m running a Matrix Audio X-SPDIF2 into I2S 2 and pass the bitperfect test with the polarity set to “normal”. I had a DSJ so I couldn’t run the test on that, but I know that it sounded right and I never touched the DIP switches on it. I also don’t recall anyone having to mess with its DIP switches on the Mk1. I’m just trying to figure out if we have a discrepancy here, or even the possibility that the convention on one of our units might be inconsistent?
@tedsmith Is this behavior consistent with your understanding? I don’t know if I’m reading something that wasn’t implied, but it sounds like you are saying “normal” is consistent with other PSA gear and that @jkrichards is running into the opposite situation.
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Normal means the connections that PS Audio normally uses. The thing that can confuse some is that the PS Audio standard connections for I2S use the opposite polarity than HDMI does, but that’s always been true. Perhaps we should have labeled the polarities in the UI as “PS Audio” and “Inverted”
Indeed, with the Matrix you want the switches all off (or on, whichever is the factory default.)
A bug that Barry has fixed for releasing today accidentally set the I2S polarity options for one of the I2S inputs wrong. (I don’t know if it did it for everyone or just for some.) You just need to set the I2S polarity settings to Normal. But if you want to be sure your system is set up right you can run the Bit Perfect test, or even simpler, play a CD (or something ripped from a CD.) If the I2S polarity setting is correct (and your system is bitperfect) the display will read 16/44.1. If the I2S polarity is wrong (or your system isn’t bit perfect) you will see 24/44.1.
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Yes my i2s # 2 needed to be set to inverted to pass the channel and bit perfect test. So you are saying this is a bug?
Notwithstanding your reported experience:
There was a bug in the last update that set one of the I2S input’s polarity to Inverted. My experience and the intent was that you need all I2S input polarities set to “Normal” for normal operation with PS Audio I2S equipment. I just verified that this is true with both my PST and foobar2000 (via the Matrix) and it’s been true during development.
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Also the power plant remote turns on the display when dimmed.
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OK… When I hook up my MK1 it passes the bit perfect and channel test. If I set the MK2 to normal is does not pass. The channels and polarity were correct before this last update.
Hmm. things are weird. I can’t get the bit perfect test to fail whether the polarity is inverted or not. But it does change the 24/44.1 vs 16/44.1 correctly.
Could you try a factory reset and see if things stay the same?
Anyway I’ll contact Barry.
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I will however if you use my test tracks it will verify what I am stating above.
As I understand it Ted, your unit is not a production unit right? Maybe something is off in the manufacturing and it would be good to get one off the production line for testing.
I have production units and non-production units. I’m testing on a production unit at the moment.
PS Audio is looking at it, but it’s not a hardware issue. It’s software, but I don’t see what jkrichards sees, even with his test files. On the other hand I2S2 doesn’t seem to be swapping channels here, but it does seem to be inverting polarity - that has to be my fault in the FPGA. But we’ve got to check this more carefully to make sure we’re not getting fooled by something.
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