Matching the Rivo+ to Denafrips Pontus 15th over I2S

[Marc050]

I am trying to match the Rivo+ to the Pontus 15th, but I am kind of stumped.

Rivo has a lot of options for setting a brand. I put that on Denafrips.
The Pontus 15th has 8 different pin out modes. At first I left it on default (0-0-0 lights off) I did get sound, but my right and left channel were swapped. I looked at the diagram in the manual and settled on the one where all values are opposite (1-1-1 lights on) Now the channels are correct, but I am clueless about the other values to do with clocking. I do sometimes get a glitch where I hear a high pitched sound, but that seems to be happening in different pin out settings.

I don’t have any DSD files so I don’t know wether that is correctly implemented now.

I’ll add the diagrams from the denafrips manual and the setting instruction to my post. Could someone advise me what setting to use (1 to 8) with the Rivo+ set to Denafrips.

[Darmur]

On Rivo Plus you should select “Denapfris” on the HDMI I2S Mode drop-down menu’

on the Denapfris Pontus DAC, you should select the mode number 6

this will give the perfect matching for the I2S signals between Rivo Plus and Pontus DAC

[Marc050]

Thanks!

Even though AI tells me swapping BCK+ and - (setting 8) should not make a difference it now sounds more ‘right’.

[DavidWind]

@Darmur Thanks for that info. I have been exclusively using my LAIV DAC with the Rivo +, but I have a Pontus, and was intending on trying it out, so this will prove helpful.