Problem connecting kitsune red to a non-roon-ready dac

[Stevan_Apter]

hi folks

i’ve been successful at connecting my kitsune red to a roon-ready dac.

i’ve been less than successful connecting it to a dac which is NOT roon-ready.

my current setup is as follows:

red → bifrost2 dac via USB (success streaming roon)

red → prism orpheus preamp/dac via toslink OR digital coax – NOT SUCCESSFUL

input to the red is via ethernet from the roon server.

i notice that when the bifrost dac is switched off i see the red appear in the roon audio devices list, but when it is on i see TWO red devices in the list. i’ve been assuming that with the bifrost off the one red device i see will connect over toslink or coax to the prism orpheus. this doesn’t work.

in any case, i can’t see how to get the red to send music to the orpheus.

i should note that the orpheus works properly when connected via optical or coax to a cd transport. that is, the optical and coax inputs work correctly in this case.

is there some additional setting i need to make in the config to give me the ability to stream to EITHER the bifrost dac OR to the prism orpheus? the only change i had to make to get the bifrost to work was to select the bifrost roon-ready option in the config.

i can send screenshots if that helps narrow down the problem.

thanks

[bearFNF]

What do you mean by “not successful”? What are you seeing.

If you are connecting via toslink or Coax and the Red shows up as a zone are you playing on that zone? Since the DAC is only receiving optical/coax audio signal (no data) it would be the RED that would receive the data and show up as a zone. Which is one of the devices you are seeing. The second device is also the RED but, because there is a data connection to the Bifrost2, the RED is passing that back to Roon server. Each of them “should” function as an end point I would think. You just need to enable the “RED” zone and make sure the sample rate is correct for the DAC to accept it.

Also, as far as I am aware the Bifrost 2 is “Roon Tested” not “Roon Ready”

[Stevan_Apter]

thanks for the quick response, and the corrections. yes, roon-tested, not -ready.

the problem was on the orpheus side: i hadn’t enabled s/pdif input.

i’ll declare this problem solved. and thanks again.

[Stevan_Apter]

thanks - problem solved. (wish they were all that easy)