Baffled and Frustrated: Streaming/DAC Sound Issues
Hoping to find some guidance here regarding a significant noise issue. Running Quboz through Roon. Relevant Gear is an Auralic Aries G2.1 > Morrow USB cable >Aavik D280 DAC > Wywires Platinum RCA >Anthem STR.
Previously had some issues with the Aries but that’s hammered out and sounding great. Now, when running many songs through the DAC, I’m hearing terrible “crunching” distortion. There’s very little consistency in the problem (loud Pink Floyd sounds great, loud Motley Crue sounds like garbage) except most hard rock/metal, which i started putting on per Morrow Audio’s recommendation for burning in their USB cable, is always terrible. Volume is irrelevant, I’m getting the noise at sub-30db. The 4 DAC settings: upsampling/ non upsampling/fast/slow don’t change anything. USB cable isn’t likely the problem, it sounds great from streamer to amp without the DAC. I’m running out of settings to change around. Anyone have an educated guess or experience with either the output settings from the Aries or D280 setup that can provide any guidance? Dealer wasn’t very helpful.
Thanks much,
Peter
Sorry. What is 'douchey'. Is this a shower for a Frenchman? What I was saying is that all the digital problems are caused by smashing the analogue music into billions of tiny pieces and then worrying why you can't put them back together again. Because you can't. I was suggesting that even highly intelligent engineers are still failing to find a way to do it. Sorry for going over your head. |
@clearthinker you can never go over my head. Maybe between my knees or around my ankles. And that was not what you said. You were being a total jackass! Now go back to your Close and Play. Oh, and I have a great digital FE as well as Analog.
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