Pro-Ject Stream Box S2 Ultra troubleshooting tips

Hi all,

after almost giving up on using it for Roon at all i have found a way to engage again the device that showed a strange behavior

after e couple of seconds it was turning in a totally ruined sound quality like distortion because of clipping

the trick was to go to

Settings → System → Factory Reset

and reconfigure the device from scratch - you need to attach the device over a LAN cable to your router with DHCP enabled - otherwise you will have a problem to reconnect for reconfiguration

the other tip is when you change the DAC or disconnect and reconnect the USB cable to the DAC you may loose the ability to control the volume with the device level option

especially switching from one DAC to another there are some problems you can get with the recognition of the setting:

Settings - General Playback Options - Volume Options

Mixer Type - should be recognized as Hardware
Mixer Control Name - should match the name of the device in

Settings - General Playback Options - Audio Output

Output Device -

please note that some USB DAC do not have the hardware mixer type, for example the good old

Musical Fidelity V90-DAC

has to be set with mixer type at software

so far - so good

Stefano

P.S.:

minDSP 2X4 HD
miniDSP Flex 8 DL

have all mixer type hardware with a full functioning digital volume control also acroos the Pro-Ject Stream Box