HQ Player - Ticks and pops

[audiofool1982]

Hi Guys,

 

My digital chain is as follows:

 

Custom Ryzen 7 server with Euphony OS -> Roon + HQ Player -> Uptone audio Iso regen with LPS -> Lampizator GA TRP DAC.

 

Suddenly as of last night, I am hearing ticks and pops in my music. i'll try to attach a video so u can hear what I am talking about. For trouble shooting purposes, I changed my music server to Just Roon and the ticks and pops disappear. I also tried removing the isoregen and it makes no difference. I shut off everything and rebooted everything, still the issue happens. Does it have anything to do with my HQ Player settings?

 

PS: First I thought my server wasnt able to handle the load, but then noticed the CPU is operating at 20%

 

 

 

[davide256]

haven't experienced that. I do get undesirably long buffering delays with  Roon & HQPlayer on an FE port pulling music from NAS and Qobuz, behaves much better

on GigE port.

[Miska]

18 hours ago, audiofool1982 said:

Hi Guys,

 

My digital chain is as follows:

 

Custom Ryzen 7 server with Euphony OS -> Roon + HQ Player -> Uptone audio Iso regen with LPS -> Lampizator GA TRP DAC.

 

Suddenly as of last night, I am hearing ticks and pops in my music. i'll try to attach a video so u can hear what I am talking about. For trouble shooting purposes, I changed my music server to Just Roon and the ticks and pops disappear. I also tried removing the isoregen and it makes no difference. I shut off everything and rebooted everything, still the issue happens. Does it have anything to do with my HQ Player settings?

 

PS: First I thought my server wasnt able to handle the load, but then noticed the CPU is operating at 20%

 

 

 

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At least one issue is startup volume being set to 0 dBFS. Never turn volume higher than -3 dBFS.

 

Another thing to check is USB cable, transfer errors cause all kinds of noises...