Asound
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I mainly use linux (Kubuntu 14.04 & 15.04) and never experienced any real problems. It is connected via usb. Do you use usb too?
There are very rare cases where I had distortion, regardless of os. Assumedly when the dac does not get the data in a format as expected. Like it has not adjusted to the new bitrate yet. But stopping all playback once did fix that for me.
Does it just happen randomly? Or did you open any additional software and then it starts? My guess is that you have one audio stream to the dac, which is used by to many programms with different formats.
Sometimes when I watched a youtube video for example and opened my tv software thereafter I had distortions. Like the dac misses that the content of the stream is a bit different now. Just some guesses. Since it's all pcm, I'am not even shure if anything changed in the one stream.
There are very rare cases where I had distortion, regardless of os. Assumedly when the dac does not get the data in a format as expected. Like it has not adjusted to the new bitrate yet. But stopping all playback once did fix that for me.
Does it just happen randomly? Or did you open any additional software and then it starts? My guess is that you have one audio stream to the dac, which is used by to many programms with different formats.
Sometimes when I watched a youtube video for example and opened my tv software thereafter I had distortions. Like the dac misses that the content of the stream is a bit different now. Just some guesses. Since it's all pcm, I'am not even shure if anything changed in the one stream.