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Yesterday I got a used Explorer² (s/n E20181) and with a great deal of help from ChrisLayerUK managed to get the latest firmware and drivers installed. – thanks (again!) Chris.

However; I’m having problems with it working correctly with both my PC (see separate thread) and at all with my Squeezebox Touch.

As with Rolski in the Roon, SBT, Explorer² setup help ... trying to play MQA thread my SBT doesn’t want to talk to my Explorer².

Prior to adding the Explorer² the music pathway was: Netgear Ready NAS > SBT > Musical Fidelity DAC > AMP. I recently borrowed an Audiolab Q DAC (capable of 24/192) and added the EDO plugin to SBT and all worked ok using the SBT's USB output. Hoping that I would just be able to put the Explorer² in place of my MF DAC as VirusKiller managed and it would work; I added the Explorer². I guess I was being optimistic! The first white light on the Explorer² is on; but I presume that is only because it is getting power from the USB input?

When I try to play music on the SBT there is no output from either the line level output or the headphone output. When I quickly tried this yesterday; I presumed that a signal was going into the Explorer² and that nothing was coming out.

Repeating this today; I’m not sure that a signal is going the Explorer². I have noticed that when I use the EDO/USB output and select the Explorer² DAC from the audio output options and then try and play a track; the progress bar does not progress nor does the time elapsed or time remaining counters appear.

As I said; I have used the EDO USB output before with another DAC without problems – so there must be some peculiarity about the Explorer².

SBT Screenshots:

‘Normal’ digital output from SBT. Note elapsed time and time remaining counters either side of track progress bar:



Explorer² selected in SBT Audio Output Menu:




Output via USB into Explorer². Note elapsed time and time remaining counters are not shown. Progress bar does not progress; even though the screen indicates 'now playing'.



As VK has managed to get the Explorer² and SBT to work; there must be some variation in the settings of one or both devices.
I have the 0.8 version of EDO and the version number on my SBT is 7.7.3r16676 and the hardware revision is 5.

Has anyone any thoughts as to what I could change or try?

Thanks