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Why my DAC will not work with the Mus. Fid. V-Link

I have a wonderful Museatex Bidat, and I just purchased a Musical Fidelity V-Link (earlier black box version). I have not been able to make the Bidat lock on the signal, the V-link works well with an inexpensive DAC I purchased on ebay, but I want to use my better converter, would anyone know what the problem is?
I'll appreciate any input.
Thanks so much
Mario
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doggiehowser
672 posts
 
See if it locks at 16 bit 44.1kHz.

I suspect it's a NOS DAC.
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marcel1728 OP
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Not sure I understand, I cannot define how it locks, it does it on its own, it's an old DAC I bought over ten years ago, it was updated then.
I tried everything with no results.
Thanks for your help
Mario
audioengr
3,282 posts
 
Even though S/PDIF is a specification, there are lots of implementations of both the driver and receiver. I have seen a lot of different ones having modded transports and DACs for about 10 years.

Some of these are finicky I have found. You may just have a finiky receiver on the Bidat, or the output on the V-link does not meet specs.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
doggiehowser
672 posts
 
The OS or music player probably set the VLink to run at its highest spec which is usually 24/192 or 24/96.

The DAC spec says it only read 16 or 20 bits.

So try using the OS/player to set the output to 16/44
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marcel1728 OP
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Thanks so much guys for your valuable input, it makes me understand a bit more about this issue, unfortunately I do not really know how to change the output to 16/44, I have a Mac computer.
Thanks again
M.
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