Pops (clicks) on C658 when skipping MQA tracks

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

Hi Lars,

Not official support, just a friendly fellow user trying to be helpful.

@Lars_Floe1

That case is marked is closed with the remark it seems fixed.

Click and pops when changing songs

After more testing with this song Artist: Jonh Stanford Album: TimeScape Track: The approaching light At 2:20 I can hear clipping. So I tried the headroom management with -3db and also the show clipping indicator active. What is strange the color doesn’t turn red so Roon don’t see clipping. But the noise (clipping) is gone. What is the difference between Headroom Management and the Volume leveling ? When I get my streamer DAC will I have those clipping ? At the moment all my FLAC files st…

Tthe user had corrected his issue with adding a -3 db headroom management.

Assuming it is not that:

1. try disabling all processing by the Core, even MQA processing, and just sending the raw file to the endpoint.

2. then, keeping those settings if the issue continues, I would try, setting your output to the laptop speakers and see if the pops clicks continue.

3. After that, I would try putting the laptop and the endpoint on ethernet and not Wifi, Reasons below

@Lars_Floe1

endpoint and core on WIFI

Having the core on Wifi can be problematic. Roon works by streaming the track to the Core, processing it to PCM (which is a larger stream), and then sending it back out to the endpoint. So, if the endpoint is not the laptop, then you are using the same wifi hop to get music in and out, which can cause issues.

Cheers