Mine has been working with no issues on multiple Windows 10 systems since the Windows 10 Creators Update (1703) when they released native USB2 audio drivers. No audio dropouts or any other anomalies. Since it's Windows, you obviously can't completely rule out driver problems, but it sounds like...

I've recently acquired an ALO Island DAC/amp, and while I don't know if it will work with the CCK (I suspect it won't without external power) I've posted the "lsusb" output from a Linux system in the Island thread when dcginc asked if it could be powered by the CCK. I noted that it requested...

I don't know if this will be helpful or not, but here's everything my computer will tell me about the Island. It does say that it requested 500ma from the computer, which is too high for the CCK, is it not? Unless they specifically engineered a mode into it where it will back off on it's...

  See, that's why it says "Junior Head-Fi'er" under my name. Sorry for the ill-informed response.    Maybe I'll try to pick up a CCK in the next few days and see if it works with my Island.

  Since there is no battery in the Island, it can not be run from a device that can't provide USB power.

  Heh, I just realized that this might be the recording, not the equipment. I just learned that Can's "Flow Motion" and "Saw Delight" are binaural recordings, so I gave them a shot on the headphones. Wow, no "right between the ears" sound on those albums (well, at least not unless it was...

Greetings Head-Fi.   Not sure exactly what goes into an "Introduction" post, but I was instructed to make one after registering here, so here it goes:   I've been into Hi-Fi for at least 15 years, but have always had a loudspeaker-based setup. I've currently got 300B SET monoblocks powering...