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Title: crackling/popping sound with audiolab mdac - linux mint
Post by: Ragebox1 on January 31, 2022, 12:49:41 pm

Hi

I've just finished my music pc using JRiver on Linux Mint

Has anyone had playback issues like this - sounds like a scratched record with popping etc when playback through usb to audiolab mdac.

I've used dragonfly red and also raspberry Pi in the past and i didn't get any such issues.

Is there a driver that i need to download or is the MDac not compatible?
If someone can point me in the correct direction, I'd appreciate this.

Thanks

Title: Re: crackling/popping sound with audiolab mdac - linux mint
Post by: Awesome Donkey on January 31, 2022, 01:03:28 pm

Check the audio output and make sure it's either the hw: or front: outputs for your DAC to make sure you're avoiding the system mixer.

Title: Re: crackling/popping sound with audiolab mdac - linux mint
Post by: Ragebox1 on January 31, 2022, 01:14:44 pm

Hi
Thankyou for the reply
what does HW stand for?

Regards

Title: Re: crackling/popping sound with audiolab mdac - linux mint
Post by: JimH on January 31, 2022, 02:48:30 pm

hardware

Title: Re: crackling/popping sound with audiolab mdac - linux mint
Post by: Wheaten on January 31, 2022, 03:06:29 pm

Or even better. If it has something to do with your computer and you can kick it, its hardware. If you can't kick it it's software.

Title: Re: crackling/popping sound with audiolab mdac - linux mint
Post by: Ragebox1 on January 31, 2022, 04:16:48 pm

the hardware is fine and works on windows perfectly as it should -

Title: Re: crackling/popping sound with audiolab mdac - linux mint
Post by: Awesome Donkey on January 31, 2022, 04:37:10 pm

There's different audio outputs for ALSA (and Pulseaudio, but that should be avoided) on Linux. Using the hw: or front: outputs for your DAC means the Linux OS/system isn't messing with your audio output, doing things like resampling which Pulseaudio does by default. If your goal is bit-perfect audio output on Linux, using the hw: or front: outputs is important.