Quote: Originally Posted by LostOne.TR @mbliss, where ya located/what is that a view of? San Diego, it's 32nd ST naval base. I work at NAS north island (coronado).

I use a brand new usb cable, also I have it plugged into the usb slot the furthest away from the video card and cpu. I tested last night for 4 hours doing something that before caused me to have to unplug the dac (full video/cpu load). Still a complete working solution for me. Good luck to...

AH HA! Fixed it! On vista right click on your sound icon in the task bar, click playback devices. Select the USB Audio CODEC hit properties then select the advanced tab. DE-SELECT both options in exclusive mode. Doing testing right now. Everything that used to cause the crackling does not...

Limin - I get the same problem, sounds like a crackling huh? Here are my specs: Asus g2s-b2, 2.4, 3gb ram, 250gb 7200, nvidia 8600m. However I use an external monitor, keybard and mouse. Keyboard and mouse are USB. The problem is not to be fully blamed on USB, it's the other...

Overall desk: There is a HD cable box, cable modem, and more external HD's to the left of the macbook not pictured. Close up: Like my ghetto dual monitor set-up?  

Was thinking about giving this issue that recently came up it's own thread but decided against it... Anyways I keep getting some bad crackling, popping and clicks from the DAC. The amp is not causing it (tested with just using the amp). Only happens when the system is stressed, like when...

Yes I think I just entered into a new hobby my wallet will not enjoy! Thank you for your quick and thoughtful response. So basically I would not need to use anything like asio4all or wasapi when using USB? Does it just completely bypass windows mixer sort of like kernel streaming? Now with...

Hello, first let me say thanks for taking the time to read and/or answer my questions. Let me say right now that I am a little new to the audiophile scene so please forgive any "noob" questions I might have. Anyways let me get down to it. I just purchased a headroom micro amp and dac last...