Hello,
I managed to diagnose this issue as NOT connected to my JDS Labs Atom amp because it's exactly the same on my speakers. So it must be the DAC or Windows problem or I don't know. Present on VLC, iTunes, Youtube - it's all the same.
I recorded a soundtrack playing from my headphones. During the first several seconds it's normally playing. Then I'm using keyboard arrows to fast-forward it. You can notice the first crackle noise at the very start of the song. Then when fast-forwarding, the crackle is sometimes hard to notice and sometimes it gets really bad. Example place where the crackle occurs in Audacity (light blue vertical area):
Here is the recording in .wav of crackle sound only. Get your volume low to make sure it's not too loud:
https://we.tl/t-6UyUmwPA89
And here is the full recording:
https://we.tl/t-RmXGpKDJ4H
I'm never able to notice this problem when the song is just playing apart from the very start and the very end of it, though on these "edges" of the soundtrack it's more gentle than when fast-forwarding.
Sometimes we tend to pursue inaudible improvements, but this is a very audible problem that I would like to solve, crucial when I'm looking for diamonds in a huge collection.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that this also happens when changing track volume - the bigger the change - the worse pop/crackle happens, though this one is heavily track-dependent, very prominent for example here (not my kind of music by the way):
I managed to diagnose this issue as NOT connected to my JDS Labs Atom amp because it's exactly the same on my speakers. So it must be the DAC or Windows problem or I don't know. Present on VLC, iTunes, Youtube - it's all the same.
I recorded a soundtrack playing from my headphones. During the first several seconds it's normally playing. Then I'm using keyboard arrows to fast-forward it. You can notice the first crackle noise at the very start of the song. Then when fast-forwarding, the crackle is sometimes hard to notice and sometimes it gets really bad. Example place where the crackle occurs in Audacity (light blue vertical area):
Here is the recording in .wav of crackle sound only. Get your volume low to make sure it's not too loud:
https://we.tl/t-6UyUmwPA89
And here is the full recording:
https://we.tl/t-RmXGpKDJ4H
I'm never able to notice this problem when the song is just playing apart from the very start and the very end of it, though on these "edges" of the soundtrack it's more gentle than when fast-forwarding.
Sometimes we tend to pursue inaudible improvements, but this is a very audible problem that I would like to solve, crucial when I'm looking for diamonds in a huge collection.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that this also happens when changing track volume - the bigger the change - the worse pop/crackle happens, though this one is heavily track-dependent, very prominent for example here (not my kind of music by the way):
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