Help! nDAC failure!

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How do I “select” channel 2?

The rear “socket selection” switch merely toggles between DIN and RCA…

…for output I assume …

The front buttons “prev” and “next” do not make any difference.

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On the Ndac front panel each button is marked 1 to 4. Just pressing the button should light it green, so if you had multiple inputs in the back, say a SPDIF from your streamer, a SPDIF from your CD digital out and an optical input from a video player you can toggle between them on the front panel.

If you have your SPDIF connection going to channel 2 and channel 1 is selected the sync light won’t be on. Does that make any sense?

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Are you suggesting that the “prev” button selects channel 1 and the “next” button selects channel 2?

The input lead from thestreamer (DIN to Coax spdif) is in “channel 2”.

As I already said, pressing the front buttons makes no difference and if those buttons have no relationship with input “channel” settings. then how the hell do I do that?

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Yes, press the button marked 2 and make sure it is green. I’d switch of your streamer and power it back up after 5 mins or so. When the Ndac sees it the sync light should flash and if the 2 button is green the sync light should stay on but only if you are playing music.

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Done all that. Streamer flashed amber. DAC sync light flashed green. Streamer light went green. Sync light disappeared. Album playing on streamer. No sound. No sync light.

No change.

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Any ideas, Richard?

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I suppose it’s always possible that the latest firmware upgrade has resulted in a full reset making the ND5XS2 incompatible with the discontinued nDAC.

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Have you made sure the ND5XS2 Digital Output is still enabled after resetting to the factory default settings ?

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That’s odd.

All I’ve got for Output settings is this.

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How are you connecting your ND5XS2 to the NDac?

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Strange - the screen grab is from the Naim app showing my output settings (on an NDX2 but the ND5XS2 is the same) - I don’t recognise the ssettings window you show ?

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Yep. Then if I tap again, it just goes to

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Then you want to select Digital BNC to enable the Digital (S/PDIF) output.

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Your DIN to SPDIF post above concerns me.

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OH MY GOD!! AT LAST!!

Thank you so much. :kissing_heart:

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As you have discovered you want to select Digital BNC…

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The reset has improved the “Rumours” playback also.

Somewhat.

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