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Posted by Gerry E. on May 24, 2021 at 17:59:23:
It was delivered this morning. Even though for most of the day, Fedex tracking showed it wasn't going to be delivered until tomorrow. Hmmm, maybe I'll get two of them? Nah, the tracking number on the shipping box matched the one I was tracking on the computer. Note that they were back-ordered but once it shipped it took about 5 days to get from China to New York.

I spent at least half the day trying to get the Chinese "black box" to pass DSD to the X26 Pro. I tried everything I could including a number of different hookup options but still couldn't get it to work. Then I started with all of the many different system and audio settings on the Sony digital player being used as a transport. Still, a no go.

Then I went through dozens and dozens of posts, on different websites, discussing the hook-up and use of the black box. Out of all those posts, only one mentioned that he couldn't get it to work until he hooked up an external power supply to the black box (in most situations, just the HDMI connection will be enough to power it). So I searched my box of power supplies for a 5v one and came close enough, 4.5v. My perseverance paid off - BINGO!

By this time it was late in the day but I did listen for a little while and the DAC X26 Pro sounded very promising. There are a number of reasons why the current setup is not optimized yet (ex. using a cheap garbage interconnect cable as the coax digital cable). Once I get everything optimized, hopefully in the next few days, I will report back.

Gerry