Hi there,
Crossposting this from the MC 18 suggestion boards.
This is the continuation of a conversation that I've been having with JimH on the JRMC18 board. Basically, the problem to be solved are the pops or clicks during DSD playback between tracks, especially on opera or other classical music that are supposed to flow continuously from one track to another.
I did a bit more testing because this issue was starting to wear on me. It happens with both Firewire and USB on my Mytek and with USB on the Meitner MA-1.
Digging deeper into the archives, I saw that some people had an issue with it very early on (using on the fly DSD transcoding to PCM) and were able to overcome it by unchecking the "use gapless playback for sequential tracks" and checking the "smooth crossfade 0.1 sec".
I tried this today with MC 17 release 184 (latest) and the crossfade options DO NOT work with DSD! even switching it up to like 1-2 seconds I hear no difference, with or without the "use gapless playback" option.
I am going to crosspost this in the MC 17 forums too as it seems like a bug with DSD playback in MC 17. Basically, crossfade does NOT work with DSD files.
Thanks!
Yeang