Confused about how to improve my audio system!

[Bill_Janssen (Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)]

That was a brief honeymoon. Combining the Liberty DAC with the USB port of the RoPieee box seems to have done something bad. It will play for two or three songs, then the DAC goes into some error mode and has to be power-cycled to get it to work again. Back to the Mac Mini as endpoint.

Update: Apparently this is some kind of Roon/RoonBridge bug with XMOS chipsets and Linux:

DAC issues with XMOS usb chipset and Roon on Linux

There seems to be a growing number of support threads all relating to the same thing. Roon is hanging the DAC when bitrate switching. It only seems to effects endpoints running Linux and the DAC has the XMOS usb chipset. This can be endpoints running Roonbridge on dietpi, Ropieee, Rock and even the Nucleus itself amongst others. Its been ongoing for months now. I myself have had to mention this on a lot of threads that this keeps coming up on, I have lost count of how many but it’s been 3 in the…