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Laptop Specifications To Play DSD Files
SKY1950:
Hi AGAWA, unfortunately my euphoria was short lived, I run quite a few tracks today and buffing started on Flac or DSD Hi Res files, output box ticked/unticked played from memory off/on, I am waiting an answer from ATC, I know the files are good because they play fine on my Linn DSM 3 (not DSD) anyway all suggestions I welcome as I want to resolve the problems.
Steve
GuySmileysMonkey:
@Sky1950
Did this problem get resolved for you? I have a similar issue with the DAC in my SIA2-100 integreated amp. It uses the same Windows driver as the ATC CDA2. At the moment my unit is in the hands of the Australian ATC importer.
I have had no problems with DSD playback, but am unable to playback anything with a higher sample rate than 48 without significant stutter and interruptions. This means that none of the following PCM files on my internal SSD will play back: 24/96, 24/192, 24/384. Here are some observations about the troubleshooting I've done:
1. The problem isn't unique to MC (I've tried 21, 22 & 30), occurring also when playing back with Qobuz and Foobar2000
2. The same files playback without issue on my two other DACs.
3. All settings made in accordance with ATC's manual, but many iterative changes were tried in buffering and playing from memory settings as well as others. No over sampling or down sampling applied
4. Drivers for all other audio devices were removed for testing and Antivirus set to hibernate
5. The most recent Anamaro (they make the USB card in the ATC products) driver for Windows 10 was tried without success in addition to the driver linked to by ATC on their website.
6. 2 x Standard USB data cable used (1.8m) directly between my Windows 10 laptop (more than powerful enough with Intel i7, 16GB RAM and a 2TB SSD) and the DAC with no intervening devices.
7. According to the dealer in whose hands I've left my unit, the DAC works flawlessly with files of all supported sample rates using Roon > Mac as source.
8. Sidenote: the transformer on my unit has a hum, not noticeable at listening distance while music is playing, but noticeable while listening iva headphone output. Could be a problem with the electronics in my home.
Interested to hear what you did to solve the problem. It's very annoying. While file >24/48 make up less than 10% of my digital library, they are many of my favourite albums.
dtc:
Some questions and suggestions.
What does DSP Studio report? Something may be happening that you are not aware of.
Are your DSD and high sample rate PCM files on the same drive? Any networked drives involved.
What antivirus are you using? Disable anything other than Defended and use the thread at the top of this forum to set the exclusions for Media Center in Defender.
You should be able to play high sample rate PCM without any special drivers. So, I would delete the drivers and use Wasapi and see if that works. Wasapi will work for DoP but not for native DSD. Since the device plays DSD on IOS it probably accept DoP format.
Try both Wasapi and Direct Sound.
Are you using DoP for DSD? In either case (DoP or native) you are sending sample rates greater than 48 KHz. Since that works it seems like the problem is not just sample rate.
Is Volume Protection on or off?
Have your dealer try a Windows system.
Contact the manufacturer for suggestions. They seem to have that model working with JRiver.
By the way, ATC makes great speakers. I did not know they made this amp. Fine company.
SKY1950:
Hi GuySmileysMonkey,
I had forgot about this post, I tried the suggestions on this forum but no joy, I sent messages to ATC and had some correspondence but no answers so I gave up trying to play DSD through MC on my Hi Fi, I may try the set up again, what I do know is when I play a 192 - 24 bit Flac file on my Naim streamer which is connected to the ATC CDA 2 sounds great but the same file on MC buffers as did a DSD 256,
GuySmileysMonkey:
--- Quote from: SKY1950 on December 27, 2022, 09:32:20 am ---Hi GuySmileysMonkey,
I had forgot about this post, I tried the suggestions on this forum but no joy, I sent messages to ATC and had some correspondence but no answers so I gave up trying to play DSD through MC on my Hi Fi, I may try the set up again, what I do know is when I play a 192 - 24 bit Flac file on my Naim streamer which is connected to the ATC CDA 2 sounds great but the same file on MC buffers as did a DSD 256,
--- End quote ---
Thanks for responding.
Does your Naim stream have both an inbuilt DAC and digital outputs? If so, do you use the DAC in the CSA 2 or your streamer?
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