Audirvana 2 Strange Behaviour

[Mark P.]

I notice that when using A+2 for a long period of time (2 to 6 hours), it freeze permanently, halt for 1-2 seconds or generate high frequency sound. Very very strange. Never happen on version 1.5.

 

 

I run A+ on MacBook Pro 2014 SSD with 8GB memory.

[wgscott]

I've had it happen with 1.5. Rarely, and never enough that it allowed me to track down what was happening. Are you using Dirac by any chance?

[Mark P.]

On 2.0, it happens at least twice a week. Hick ups occur more. If flaw caused by Apple Architecture or A+ design, I can live with it.

 

wgscott: I'm not sure what Dirac means. If it is a direct mode, yes. Below is my setup.

 

[wgscott]

Dirac room correction software. I can't see anything problematic about your setup.

[Mark P.]

No Dirac

[odelay]

Do you play A+ from a RAM disk, by any chance?

 

Even before 2.0, A+ has been struggling when playing from a RAM disk. Regardless of the memory I seem to allocate (RAM disk size and/or A+ size), I have been plagued by stalls marked by a high-pitched drone that is the same when it tries to play something that's yet loaded into RAM.

 

But don't think my issue is the same as yours. As my stalls and crashes seem to happen at the end of the first track loaded.

[Mark P.]

No RAM disk.

[Mark P.]

Changing in the core design impacts the whole SQ than worth it. The problems I raise can have an easy workaround. Just restart A+ more often solve the problem. I know it is annoying to do this. But, will you trade off the current SQ?

 

good,Hick ups occur more. If flaw caused by Apple Architecture or A+ design, I can live with it.