InnuOS Sense 2.6.0.

I’m running a Node 130 with an external LPS.  Have any of you switched from a Node to an Innuos and what are your thoughts?

Thanks.

@curiousjim 

I did just that; from N130 with PD Creative kit and LPS, to Zen Mini mkiii w/Innuos LPS. Sold the Node and picked up the Zen pre-loved

It wasn't a minor improvement to SQ. To my mind, this jump was/is a major one; the law of diminishing return yet to kick in at this level, if that makes sense.

I also dropped the Network Acoustic ENO filter between network switch and the Zen which improved things again.

Thanks for the reply @painter24 

I’m sure the Node is the weakest link in my system, but going into a Denifrips Pontus ll has it sounding really good. I can only imagine how great a better streamer would sound.

I’m hoping that I can have the same joy soon.

I did the InnuOS 2.6 update (successfully?) along with some older updates at the same time. My Innuos Zen Mini MKIII is second hand and was still running InnuOS 2.2.5. It worked fine beforehand, but now I can only rip cd’s (still retrieving album art and song data), but cannot play them back. I don’t currently have a Tidal or Qobuz account, but Internet Radio is not finding any stations. The unit is seen in the network via myinnuos.com, but that’s about it as far as I can get. When I try to playback ripped CDs, the songs never start. The timer never advances, nor can I use the slider bar to advance it. Volume level is turned up and I can browse through my collection, pull up any album and select any individual track.

I’ve searched through the updated Sense app menus for a solution, reconnectted to no avail, restarted and unplugged the unit, reinstalled the Sense app, restarted my iphone, reconnected the wiring (tried both analog and USB/DAC) and reinstalled the Ethernet cable, but nothing. When connected to my DAC (internal to SA-KI Ruby) is says USB-DAC Unlock, which from what I can read, means that the signal sequence is not recognized, but as I tried to connect using the Innuos analog outs via the Zen’Mini’s internal DAC to my integrated (PM-KI Ruby), that also did not work. I thought maybe the update to the Innuos made some incompatibility issue with the DAC in the SA-KI, but since the analog out set up did not work either, thought it was something else. Note before I installed a USB-DAC cable, I had been using the analog outs, so positive both connection methods were functional prior to downloading InnuOS 2.6

I could not find a similar situation online with respect to InnuOS 2.6, and I tried to read through any user issues with previous versions, but still nothing much new.

I placed a help desk ticket yesterday and awaiting a reply from an Innuos tech. Until then, I’ll just sit and enjoy the unit’s good looks. Ha ha. Have to love the process more than the end result, but boy will it be good to resolve the issue.

@shredsled 

There is an Innuos group on Facebook. The last time I had issues I posted on there and someone helped me resolve the problem before Innuos could get back to me.