I bought the buffalo dac from someone at head-fi.
I receive the dac yesterday and I didnt have a coax, so I used a good rca, and sound was coming out of it. However, I had to switch between wires often to find a cable that didnt crackles, I finally found one that permits me to listen to music.
Today, theres a problem. I bought a coaxial cable. Since then, even if I go back to the rca cable I was using yesterday, theres super disturbing crackles, plus the music stops every 30 secound to reload I guess. I have a v-dac, and this happens once every hours! Yesterday night, I seemed to notice that the crackles was there when I used hi-res files, but today, any files causes problem to the dac!
please help, I'm about to lose my mind, cry, throw the dac out the window and go back to my normal ipod life 😀
I receive the dac yesterday and I didnt have a coax, so I used a good rca, and sound was coming out of it. However, I had to switch between wires often to find a cable that didnt crackles, I finally found one that permits me to listen to music.
Today, theres a problem. I bought a coaxial cable. Since then, even if I go back to the rca cable I was using yesterday, theres super disturbing crackles, plus the music stops every 30 secound to reload I guess. I have a v-dac, and this happens once every hours! Yesterday night, I seemed to notice that the crackles was there when I used hi-res files, but today, any files causes problem to the dac!
please help, I'm about to lose my mind, cry, throw the dac out the window and go back to my normal ipod life 😀
make sure the interal connections are tight. the dac can make sound with a loose ground on the SPDIF input, but it will crackle every once and a while. perhaps changing cables often aggrevated a loose connection on the RCA jack.
okay, heres the update. I use foobar with asio4all with success with my musical fidelity v-dac. I think that I solved the problem concerning the buffering (stops every 30 second for half a secound or so) by increasing the asio buffer.
However, the crackles are still there and its intermittent. sometimes its coming from both output, but mainly from one. But both output seems to develop the same problem. What should I do? I did not build the buffalo, so I have no idea what to do next. Even just connected without any music playing, I hear some crackles sometimes. (I hope that you understand what I mean by crackles, sort of a vinyl crackles type of sound)
thanks for your helpl and what should I do next.
I checked for any loose connection, but everything seems in order,
Anyone experienced this problem. Would it be only a problem from the output, or could come from the chip itself? I'm afraid to have lose my money...
just for information, I use a m-audio firewire 1814 audiocard
However, the crackles are still there and its intermittent. sometimes its coming from both output, but mainly from one. But both output seems to develop the same problem. What should I do? I did not build the buffalo, so I have no idea what to do next. Even just connected without any music playing, I hear some crackles sometimes. (I hope that you understand what I mean by crackles, sort of a vinyl crackles type of sound)
thanks for your helpl and what should I do next.
I checked for any loose connection, but everything seems in order,
Anyone experienced this problem. Would it be only a problem from the output, or could come from the chip itself? I'm afraid to have lose my money...
just for information, I use a m-audio firewire 1814 audiocard
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I may have talked to fast, the stopping of music (buffering) keeps happening, even if I put the buffering in the asio at the highest possible. The problem only happened with my v-dac if I put the asio buffering at sort of 88 samples, but now i'm at 1200 something, and still it buffs. When it happened, on the buffallo dac, the little green light, with the lock written next to it, flashes...
Also, the crackles are surely there everytime I change a song, during the songs, they are much more rare, can it comes from my computer, but how and why, since its working perfectly with my other dac
I'm sorry for all the post.
Okay, something even weirder. The crackles are immediate with hi-res files, but with just normal flac files, the crackles are MUCH less often, but right when I put a hi-res vinyl rip files, the crackles are back
Okay, something even weirder. The crackles are immediate with hi-res files, but with just normal flac files, the crackles are MUCH less often, but right when I put a hi-res vinyl rip files, the crackles are back
What is your Output format set to. 32-Bits !?
If so, it might be too high , you can drop it to 16 or 24-Bits and see if the scratching remains or ....
If so, it might be too high , you can drop it to 16 or 24-Bits and see if the scratching remains or ....
yes my output format is set to 32 bits.
But can it caused the crakles? Anyone experience the crackles problem??
But can it caused the crakles? Anyone experience the crackles problem??
well "The output format from foobar to ASIO is determined by ASIO. If the music files are 8-bit or 16-bit or 24-bit it doesn't matter. ASIO normally uses 32-bit to receive and process data because that is the native format of the CPU."
So I can change it to 24 bit...
So I can change it to 24 bit...
sorry, so I CANT change the output format, and it shouldnt change anything.
In fact, even when foobar is closed, but the dac is connected and open, theres crackles coming out of the speakers, so foobar cannot be the cause of the problem
In fact, even when foobar is closed, but the dac is connected and open, theres crackles coming out of the speakers, so foobar cannot be the cause of the problem
at 16 or 24_bits the signal comes in clear. so trouble shoot elsewhere once these parameters are set .
and i presume that since you are running at 32-Bits you have the Kernel Streaming Output installed in your Components ? otherwise take it for granted that the signal is and never will be clear .
I use asio with foobar.
i switched to just use foobar with my sound card at 16 bit. The crackles are still there, even if foobar is totally closed. Also, at 16 bit, the music stop every 20 second or so...
That probably tells you that the problem doesnt comes from the way I manage my music.
Also, I tried with winamp, or VLC player, yet all the problems are still there...
thx btw
i switched to just use foobar with my sound card at 16 bit. The crackles are still there, even if foobar is totally closed. Also, at 16 bit, the music stop every 20 second or so...
That probably tells you that the problem doesnt comes from the way I manage my music.
Also, I tried with winamp, or VLC player, yet all the problems are still there...
thx btw
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Another symptoms I can describe, evrytime the music stops, it stops two time within 2 second, then everything is good until the next time. but everytimes so far since I noticed, it stops two times in a row.
where are you getting these hi-rez vinyl rip files from? i had some and it wasn't ripped well, giving me tons of crackles.
No, my vinyl rips are from known guys on the net, with the reputation of giving a absolute vinyl rip and anyways, I listen to those rips all the times, the crackles doesnt comes from the files. Pm me for info about the vinyl rips, I can't tell it on a public forum. In facts all the rips I have sounds better then my decent turn table with the same vinyl. Theres particularly one guy on a blog that his rips are to die for
Okay, I think I found something! From one of the lcdps, the one going to the upper dac board, one of the black thing (transformateur I guess) gets super hot, boiling hot, while all the other 3 are in a normal temperature, so that might be the problem...
Okay, I think I found something! From one of the lcdps, the one going to the upper dac board, one of the black thing (transformateur I guess) gets super hot, boiling hot, while all the other 3 are in a normal temperature, so that might be the problem...
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