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Intermittent white noise from WDM Driver
ToasterPC:
--- Quote from: JimH on December 25, 2023, 01:37:13 am ---Do you mean select WDM? It's a driver, not a DSP device.
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Sorry, you're right. I meant the JRiver audio device that shows up after enabling WDM.
--- Quote from: JimH on December 25, 2023, 01:37:13 am ---This should be the sound device.
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Yes, I have selected the FiiO DAC in the corresponding zone.
--- Quote from: JimH on December 25, 2023, 01:37:13 am ---If you test after setting up, but without doing any zones or zone setup, what happens? Can you make WDM work at all?
If not, the DAC isn't doing its job.
If so, maybe you've found a problem we don't know about.
Turn off anything you have set in DSP Studio.
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Okay, just restored JRiver to factory defaults and attempted again to run without using any of the DSP's features.
It seems that it can work, albeit intermittently.
As of now, keeping the driver as a stereo device instead of the 7.1 I had it setup as seems to make the experience a bit more stable, though after clicking "Configure" in the Sound Control Panel the glitchyness tends to come back even after a reboot. Several attempts have led to the static sound coming back, but there doesn't seem to be a consistent reason for the behavior.
At least in this case, I've got my doubts the issue is with the DAC itself, given that the same behavior can be reproduced on all of the output devices, and skipping the WDM driver altogether and just using any of the outputs directly through Windows leads to no issues whatsoever.
JimH:
How about testing without any other zones?
Power settings in Windows?
NVIDIA has had recent problems that could affect HDMI. There's a thread on the forum about audio and video pauses.
ToasterPC:
--- Quote from: JimH on December 25, 2023, 03:46:38 am ---How about testing without any other zones?
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At the moment I haven't created any zones, I'm just using the default "Player" zone and manually selecting the output device.
--- Quote from: JimH on December 25, 2023, 03:46:38 am ---Power settings in Windows?
NVIDIA has had recent problems that could affect HDMI. There's a thread on the forum about audio and video pauses.
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I'm not too sure which ones I should change, but at the moment I'm running everything at default with the Balanced power plan and wired to AC. I've also checked the link you sent on the previous thread, but from what I'm able to gather it shouldn't make much of a difference given that the driver version they are speaking about is about five years outdated compared to the current one (416.81 vs 546.29). Then again, if there's something else I should be checking, please let me know.
JimH:
Experiment with the Windows power settings to see if it makes a difference.
New drivers are sometimes not the best ones.
What is "wired to AC"?
mattkhan:
I would try to take the WDM driver out of the equation so you can see whether the source is producing garbage or whether the WDM driver is doing it
e.g. you could use https://vb-audio.com/Matrix/ to route into MC asio line instead of the WDM driver
if that works then it gives some clue as to where the actual problem lies
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