i_love_hina
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Hello Head-Fi,
So recently I built a new computer. I've begun noticing a subtle but very annoying skip every now and then when listening to music. It's not even really a skip, but it's like a small skip with a crackle. At first I thought it was a bad recording, but I've been noticing it on songs I'm familiar with also. Anyway, I have absolutely no clue what's causing it. I thought it was the optical output at first, but I tried plugging my headphones directly into the front audio port and I still hear it every so often. I don't think it's the drivers either because I've tried both updating the Realtek drivers and uninstalling it as well. I'm using optical out to a Zero DAC. If I go into the sound settings in control panel and play a quick test .wav, I can hear the crackle occur once ever two or three times.
I've been thinking, and really the only thing that makes sense is it's the onboard sound doing it. But I thought the DAC was supposed to bypass the onboard? Is there something I need to do?
OP here, nvm I figured it out:
For some inexplicable reason my GTX460 came with audio drivers. Four audio drivers. Which was fking up my crap. I disabled them all and it seems okay now. SO, for posterity: Disable any audio drivers that your video card decides to impose on you.
So recently I built a new computer. I've begun noticing a subtle but very annoying skip every now and then when listening to music. It's not even really a skip, but it's like a small skip with a crackle. At first I thought it was a bad recording, but I've been noticing it on songs I'm familiar with also. Anyway, I have absolutely no clue what's causing it. I thought it was the optical output at first, but I tried plugging my headphones directly into the front audio port and I still hear it every so often. I don't think it's the drivers either because I've tried both updating the Realtek drivers and uninstalling it as well. I'm using optical out to a Zero DAC. If I go into the sound settings in control panel and play a quick test .wav, I can hear the crackle occur once ever two or three times.
I've been thinking, and really the only thing that makes sense is it's the onboard sound doing it. But I thought the DAC was supposed to bypass the onboard? Is there something I need to do?
OP here, nvm I figured it out:
For some inexplicable reason my GTX460 came with audio drivers. Four audio drivers. Which was fking up my crap. I disabled them all and it seems okay now. SO, for posterity: Disable any audio drivers that your video card decides to impose on you.
