Glad you got it figured out Devilboy. I hadn't thought of that solution for your problem. Though sometimes when i am listening to music on my extra laptop (not my primary music source) I do have to adjust volume and other sound qualities to improve the sound.
Mac Mini USB output sounds "garbled"
In my smaller second system I have a Mac Mini with songs ripped into WAV with error correction turned on going into a dac via USB. Why does the music sound "garbled" or "crackled" most of the time? I run a composite output from a CDP into the same dac and it's fine. What am I doing wrong/not doing right?