So I'm new to this forum, and new to forums online.
I have read all the posts here about the X16 and got pretty exited about it so ordered one, and have had it a couple weeks now. Thing is, I cannot get it to work right, or sound very good. There are dropouts, and also snaps like playing dirty vinyl. Sometimes I get a few hours of clean sound, then anything changes, like pausing sound or pausing the Roku player, changing anything, then it will probably start popping and have dropouts. I put this in the same set up as my old desktop DAC, which has no issue, and also audio AVR, which had no issue for years.
source (or ROKU through AV switch coax or optical out - also tried TV optical out) - X16 - NAD 2600A amp - Dynaudio Xennon 3 speakers (yup old stuff). No preamp but the "normal" input on the amp has volume control on the amp (turned down). Using the X16 remote to control volume.
I have tried optical and coax inputs from 6 sources. And, USB from my computer. Replaced cables. Inspected connections. All inputs and sources deliver issues. Being that this will be mainly used with streaming from Roku, I even upgraded the Roku from a older 3 to an Ultra. The Roku Ultra sounds considerably better on my old DAC - surprisingly so. But is no better on the X16. In fact, my old Maverick TubeMajic now blows the X16 away in sound quality and listenability (regardless of the X16's pops and dropouts) with the new Roku player. So there has to be something wrong with it.
Now I'm writing this not to dis the DAC, but to help figure out what is going on... there are a lot of wise people on this forum. Many people love it so it should be working, but I've about had it with with fooling with it. I changed cables so many times that the door to the optical connector fell off eventually. I get it to the point where ah no issues, then it starts having issues again.
Overall the problem is getting worse over time (using coax input since optical is broken).
Does anyone have any recommendations on a fix? I do understand the settings.
From the Roku player - there is only 44.1 or 48 khz. The Ultra should sometimes be showing a higher sample rates from what I understand from others (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon). Playing over Roku, there is only 44.1 with Tidal and Spotify, which both have even more dropouts. I was planning on adding a Node 2i at some point, and maybe a Pi streamer device. From the computer I was able to set up higher sample rates, but audio dropouts made it unlistenable - but no pops on USB though. Someone else had this issue on the form and there were some fixes noted for that, but I have not tried the fixes as I'm not going to be using it with my computer in the future.
I have read all the posts here about the X16 and got pretty exited about it so ordered one, and have had it a couple weeks now. Thing is, I cannot get it to work right, or sound very good. There are dropouts, and also snaps like playing dirty vinyl. Sometimes I get a few hours of clean sound, then anything changes, like pausing sound or pausing the Roku player, changing anything, then it will probably start popping and have dropouts. I put this in the same set up as my old desktop DAC, which has no issue, and also audio AVR, which had no issue for years.
source (or ROKU through AV switch coax or optical out - also tried TV optical out) - X16 - NAD 2600A amp - Dynaudio Xennon 3 speakers (yup old stuff). No preamp but the "normal" input on the amp has volume control on the amp (turned down). Using the X16 remote to control volume.
I have tried optical and coax inputs from 6 sources. And, USB from my computer. Replaced cables. Inspected connections. All inputs and sources deliver issues. Being that this will be mainly used with streaming from Roku, I even upgraded the Roku from a older 3 to an Ultra. The Roku Ultra sounds considerably better on my old DAC - surprisingly so. But is no better on the X16. In fact, my old Maverick TubeMajic now blows the X16 away in sound quality and listenability (regardless of the X16's pops and dropouts) with the new Roku player. So there has to be something wrong with it.
Now I'm writing this not to dis the DAC, but to help figure out what is going on... there are a lot of wise people on this forum. Many people love it so it should be working, but I've about had it with with fooling with it. I changed cables so many times that the door to the optical connector fell off eventually. I get it to the point where ah no issues, then it starts having issues again.
Overall the problem is getting worse over time (using coax input since optical is broken).
Does anyone have any recommendations on a fix? I do understand the settings.
From the Roku player - there is only 44.1 or 48 khz. The Ultra should sometimes be showing a higher sample rates from what I understand from others (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon). Playing over Roku, there is only 44.1 with Tidal and Spotify, which both have even more dropouts. I was planning on adding a Node 2i at some point, and maybe a Pi streamer device. From the computer I was able to set up higher sample rates, but audio dropouts made it unlistenable - but no pops on USB though. Someone else had this issue on the form and there were some fixes noted for that, but I have not tried the fixes as I'm not going to be using it with my computer in the future.
