I’ve been and actually still am a Windows 10 user as well as Mac owner and recently picked up the M1 Mac Mini as a home desktop. It’s sitting next to my 2016 Win 10 PC and I cannot believe how terrible the reliability of Core Audio is compared to ASIO on Windows. On the Mac I am constantly fighting the control panel output from the mac itself to USB audio for the Mytek Brooklyn DAC+. On Windows I set it and it’s totally fine - in fact great! There are times when Windows will not release audio back to the system but a quick standby cycle on the mytek seems to release it back.
I cannot figure out what the issues though are on the Mac which would be my ideal endpoint. Thankfully I can control Roon via the app and still have it play through the same PC here, but that feels like a strange config.
Curious if anyone else has sound troubles on Big Sur or the M1 systems. In addition to the affirmation of the output, I have noticed that the signal is hard to maintain consistency as well which a lot of skipping or clipping which is making me crazy.
I can’t figure out which is the culprit. Is it the Mytek?