Thanks!

The most common workaround that I've seen people use for the PS5 is something like HDMI to the TV, and then using the TVs optical output into the DAC. But it's not exactly an elegant solution. Thanks, Sony.

Not to my knowledge. UAC1 is largely a dead standard these days, aside from the Playstation.

Ah yes, of course. So because you've never experienced the issue yourself, it couldn't possibly exist. Got it. Good talk.

"No, that’s the whole point of digital audio in the first place. If your assertion were true the internet wouldn’t work, and neither would USB in many circumstances." It has nothing whatsoever to do with the digital signal. No idea where you even got that from. Noise can absolutely be...

You're underestimating the complexity of the issue. You can take one DAC that passes through GPU noise and hook it up to another system, and get no noise at all. Every part along the chain can have an influence. Swap to a different GPU, noise might go away. Use a different motherboard...

"a consumer DAC used appropriately is essentially defective if it allows noise/distortion to leak from the 5v power or ground into the analogue output signal to the extent of being audible (at any reasonable consumer listening level)." I see people saying this an awful lot, but there's no...

I do use a pre-amp, but I don't know that it's strictly speaking necessary for everybody to do so, especially not with the prevalence of DAC/HPA combo units that have a pre-amp function. However, my own system is also a weird blend of modern and vintage, so... Yeah. My own system chain is PC >...

Price drop.

Bump!

Replace the cable! They're cheap enough even for a decent quality cable.

I have for sale an SMSL M500 MkIII DAC and headphone amp. This is the most recent version from SMSL. I was just sent this as a new replacement for my original one, directly from SMSL and it has only been taken out of the box to verify functionality. This is not a refurb, however. It comes with...

I was thinking the same. But there seems to be some confusion about what exact kind of noise is being discussed. Ground loop issues are typically *not* subtle and are very obvious. It's not just a faint background hiss that may or may not be audible, as some in this thread seem to have implied.

Dolby Atmos won't do anything with music that isn't encoded with Dolby Atmos. It just gets passed through as stereo. It works pretty alright for headphones with Atmos-encoded movies and games (depends on the game and its implementation too), but it's never going to be as good as a full on Atmos...

Welp, now I know what I'm getting next time I go to Total Wine!