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Audio Dropouts with New (2018) Mac Mini [Solved -- Time Machine]
Dennis in FL:
I just played about 30 minutes of a classical album and so far I heard no dropouts at 500. Previously - there was a hiccup maybe every 5 minutes or so.
But something strange happened with MS....It was almost frozen. I couldn't stop playback. Eventually I went to Playback>Stop in the menu and that worked. I was getting no response from the "buttons" however. I wonder if that was a result of the new settings.
Dennis in FL:
--- Quote from: blgentry on March 13, 2019, 06:21:30 pm ---I had a thread about this a while back on my Macbook Pro. I spent quite a lot of time and effort trying to resolve it. That's not quite strong enough. I spent months with many, many, many hours of effort towards fixing this. What I found, in the end, is a buffer of 750 to 1000 mS fixed the vast majority of my dropouts. My dropouts were extremely brief. You said yours are around 2 seconds each. Mine were something like 1/10 to 1/4 of a second. Very quick, but you could hear them easily.
When I changed hardware and got a much more capable iMac, I never saw the dropouts again.
Brian.
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Brian....I'm still having this issue with a 2014 iMac.....can you share what hardware you now have that doesn't have this problem?
PS: I don't use a USB DAC yet.....right now I am just using the MAC optical out directly to my receiver.
DJLegba:
--- Quote from: Dennis in FL on May 12, 2019, 05:34:17 am ---Brian....I'm still having this issue with a 2014 iMac.....can you share what hardware you now have that doesn't have this problem?
PS: I don't use a USB DAC yet.....right now I am just using the MAC optical out directly to my receiver.
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I tried to add Airplay support to my system with an old Airport Express device, using the Toslink port from the AE to my DAC, but I got regular dropouts. Further research revealed that the AE's Toslink output exhibits jitter beyond the tolerance of my main DAC. Interestingly, I also have a Naim Muso Qb that works fine with Toslink from the AE (this was just a test - the Qb already supports Airplay, so I don't actually need the AE device with the Qb).
My main DAC works just fine with Toslink input from a Google Chromecast Audio device, and from my old Toshiba TV, so in my case the AE's optical out is definitely the culprit. That may not be your problem, but it's something to think about.
Dennis in FL:
For a test of outputs -- I just tried hooking up my USB DAC to headphones instead of they way I had it --- Toslink to a Denon receiver.
I also returned the buffer to 150 from 750.
So far I have had two drop outs (DFF file). Seems worse.
Argh!!!
DJLegba:
Do you get dropouts with hi res FLAC or ALAC files?
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