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Buffering size differences

Roon has a adjustable buffering system range from 5ms to 500ms in Roon ROCK. [image] I’m using Holo Audio Spring DAC connected via USB. I set to minimum 5ms buffering and I hear some dropouts but when I increased to 10ms, all dropouts are gone. From there, I compared the SQ between 10ms and the maximum 500ms. There’s a appreciable different; the 10ms sounds more ‘sparkle’ and more ‘air’ especially in the highs. The ‘default’ setting doesn’t sound as good as the 10ms (presuming the default se…