I got my ES9038 + Amanero combo working once again, playing FLAC up to 384 kHz and yesterday I had DSD playing perfectly. However, today when I have tried to play any DSD/DSF file, foobar's progression bar will begin to move faster than normal, although when the 5-10s delay ends and the DSD audio kicks in, the Amanero flips to red LED. Then it plays anywhere from 1 minute to 5-6 minutes, unless the sped up progression bar is able to reach the last song of the playlist before your track finishes.
Besides the odd behavior by foobar, when the Amanero stops playing the DSD track (I don't tell it to do anything, it's playing and then light show time!) it begins to alternate PCM light (blue) to DSD light (red) over and over and over until I tell foobar to stop. It's flashing at an insanely quick rate too, if this has never been seen I'll record it. During the flashing light show the DAC is showing NLOCK and after it stops it's showing 384 kHz.
I can force 384 kHz for right now instead of getting DSD native, but I am working a huge review right now and I need native decoding to help me distinguish between my line of Burson Audio, Sparkos Labs and Orange Amplification discrete op-amps! Has anyone ever seen this sort of Amanero behavior before? I thought it was due to a slow HW or faulty sector, but I moved the music onto a dedicated music SSD and DSD still does the same thing I described above. PCM plays completely fine, never tries to start swapping at the end of a PCM track either.
I would assume this meant there is a bad connection with one of the I2S cables, but I have checked those 4 times and re-terminated 2 of them today already. Their connections are secure, so is there any software reason you all could think of to cause this? BTW, are we supposed to have the Amanero set as exclusive capable in the Amanero's advanced sound options or not? WASAPI won't work without that option and the Amanero supports DSD native over WASAPI, so I'd like to use it.
ASIO does the same thing as WASAPI right now with regard to struggling at DSD tracks. In the past few days I have run full system scans by Kaspersky, AdAware, SpyBotS&D, CCLeaner Pro and I cleaned all the programs off that I don't use. I re-seated my RAM and blew the dust out of the case. I am kind of running out of ideas on more things to try. I included a few photos so you can see what I am dealing with. The Amanero did this earlier yesterday before I changed the Sanyo caps with Vishay ones, so it's not related to that part.
Note: the strangest thing about this Leaf Audio Amanero design is the fact they decided to move the DSD On pin and confuse EVERYONE! So watch out for that if you are using the same card, ribbon cable won't work unless you re-arrange it.
Besides the odd behavior by foobar, when the Amanero stops playing the DSD track (I don't tell it to do anything, it's playing and then light show time!) it begins to alternate PCM light (blue) to DSD light (red) over and over and over until I tell foobar to stop. It's flashing at an insanely quick rate too, if this has never been seen I'll record it. During the flashing light show the DAC is showing NLOCK and after it stops it's showing 384 kHz.
I can force 384 kHz for right now instead of getting DSD native, but I am working a huge review right now and I need native decoding to help me distinguish between my line of Burson Audio, Sparkos Labs and Orange Amplification discrete op-amps! Has anyone ever seen this sort of Amanero behavior before? I thought it was due to a slow HW or faulty sector, but I moved the music onto a dedicated music SSD and DSD still does the same thing I described above. PCM plays completely fine, never tries to start swapping at the end of a PCM track either.
I would assume this meant there is a bad connection with one of the I2S cables, but I have checked those 4 times and re-terminated 2 of them today already. Their connections are secure, so is there any software reason you all could think of to cause this? BTW, are we supposed to have the Amanero set as exclusive capable in the Amanero's advanced sound options or not? WASAPI won't work without that option and the Amanero supports DSD native over WASAPI, so I'd like to use it.
ASIO does the same thing as WASAPI right now with regard to struggling at DSD tracks. In the past few days I have run full system scans by Kaspersky, AdAware, SpyBotS&D, CCLeaner Pro and I cleaned all the programs off that I don't use. I re-seated my RAM and blew the dust out of the case. I am kind of running out of ideas on more things to try. I included a few photos so you can see what I am dealing with. The Amanero did this earlier yesterday before I changed the Sanyo caps with Vishay ones, so it's not related to that part.
Note: the strangest thing about this Leaf Audio Amanero design is the fact they decided to move the DSD On pin and confuse EVERYONE! So watch out for that if you are using the same card, ribbon cable won't work unless you re-arrange it.
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You must be kidding me, I think I just fixed it. It is that stupid bug where it acts up unless you turn all your volume controls on the PC end to 100%
I also turned off the Graphic EQ in the DSP menu and now it's playing DSD natively just fine. These setups can be so quirky..
I also turned off the Graphic EQ in the DSP menu and now it's playing DSD natively just fine. These setups can be so quirky..
Yep, it is still working fine. So, if you see this problem, turn off any DSP and make sure your volume on the PC end are at 100%, including the media player software.
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