Issues with ALIX / Voyage MPD

[2wo]

I have one of the first DACs and after several years I have never been able to duplicate this issue. I run a linex box headless and occasionally the player will go to "sleep" and the DAC will display 384 when I wake up the player the DAC always syncs right up, never have to power off or disconnect the USB...John

 

[mcandmar]

Bump. So anybody know anything about this, or do we need to track down PB?

@Lobo sounds like your system is defaulting to 384khz which would work around the problem as it immediately tries to sync the maximum rate.

 

[Paul Birkeland]

Bump. So anybody know anything about this, or do we need to track down PB?

You'd want to track down the designer of the DAC: John Swenson.

FWIW, I haven't had any of these types of issues on any of the firmware versions we have had.  I do leave my music server on all the time.  When I restart it, I power cycle my DAC so the computer picks it up, then everything works.

 

[mcandmar]

You'd want to track down the designer of the DAC: John Swenson.

FWIW, I haven't had any of these types of issues on any of the firmware versions we have had.  I do leave my music server on all the time.  When I restart it, I power cycle my DAC so the computer picks it up, then everything works.

This is a real live firmware bug, I will try and find and get it fixed soon.  There does seem to be a work around, if you are using USB exclusively, just make sure the switch is in USB before powering up. If you want to switch between SPDIF/TOSLINK and USB, make sure the first thing played on USB is in the same family as the last thing played on SPDIF. You may have do something specific with audio-midi settings under MacOS.

Doc will have to discuss the firmware upgrade policy when I come up with a firmware fix.

John S.

So are you saying you never received an updated firmware to address this bug?

 

[Paul Birkeland]

I was only relaying my personal experience, not speaking about the actual firmware versions.  You could certainly contact John with the issues you're experiencing to see if he has any ideas on what to try next!

-PB