Is it possible one channel of my DAC is clipping?


Curious.

I have an OPPO Sonica DAC, I love the sound of it overall. However on some tracks, distorted guitar in particular I get some light crackling out of my right speaker.

If I switch my inputs into my amp - it travels with the channel, so it’s not the speakers (and I’ve tried other speakers also). It’s also not the amp.. as it travels with the channel on the DAC.

I do also get it if I run it through a pre-amp.

Some of the tracks I can hear a bit of it on another system, though not all of the time.

Any thoughts? I’ll probably try a new DAC here soon, but simply wondering others thoughts. I do keep my DAC close to maxed out (32bit) but even reducing it a bit and using my computer to control the volume (via roon) I can’t seem to eliminate it.

Thanks.

trudat

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I will check that.  I believe Roon is doing all of my processing/upsampling.  But will go through that Menu here tonight or tomorrow.  I believe the OPPO just puts out what it gets.