Got the Shakes
500+ Head-Fier
Stalling is the term Stephen used. It means simply that the unit freezes completely. I think you will recognize this easily if this happens....
I could not really report a sluggish behaviour of my unit, just the freezing. It usually happened when I browsed throgh the menu and tried to enter sub-menu or a sub-sub-menu, in the Settings menu for example. I remember going to Settings-System and then want to to go to a sub menu, push enter and that was it, unit freezes completely. Only turning off and on again helps, but if I tried to go to the same menu again unit freezes again.
If you stumble over this you'll easily recognize it...
Only reinstalling of FW helped. But it still can happen again and it was random, I could not say that i did specific things that led to this stalling/freezing.
The other things I encounter regularly is that my presets lose their settings. Not the loaded active preset, but if you set something in preset 1 for example load a specific HPEQ or set the audio delay to xx ms and then reload the preset. If I go back to the preset settings page suddenly there is a different entry for HPEQ (or even PRIRs) or the audio delay is reset to 0 again (or the upmixer) etc. So if you just want to change something and don't check all the other settings and reload this preset you could end up with a wrong HPEQ or even wrong PRIR etc.
AFAIK for a long time I was the only one that reported this behaviour here (and to Stephen) but a few pages ago someone else reported this also.
And he (hm who was it?) also reported the white splash screen after startup from time to time which I also sometimes have.
I don't know if all this is also related to the internal SD card. I really hope though because it's annoying, I always have to check and cross check all my settings in the presets if they reloaded correctly...
Initially I thought my sudden volume drops I encountered are also related to this, but this has now been explained with the clipping protection.
The last errors I had, and someone else also, that there was no sound from the headphones, just after switching presets back and forth then it came on (not always). I hope that this is related to the experimental Atmos decoder. Also the buzz I once had and the ugly white noise on all channels...
I’ve experienced the issue with the A16 locking up when trying to go into sub menus, but that was a few firmware versions ago and lucky hasn’t seemed to happen since. The other issue I’ve run into that you described is presets losing settings. But it my case what it’s doing is losing the specific EQ in my HPEQ that I want to use.For the preset with my PRIR I have a manLOUD EQ that I made from the autoEQ. It’s the one that I always want to use instead of the flatEQ or autoEQ in the file. Often though when I Los that preset it doesn’t use the manLOUD EQ, butit picks the autoEQ or FlatEQ from the file.