Tidal MQA albums making 'crackling' sounds in ROON

Core Machine (Operating system/System info/Roon build number)
Build 521.

Network Details (Including networking gear model/manufacturer and if on WiFi/Ethernet)

Audio Devices (Specify what device you’re using and its connection type - USB/HDMI/etc.)
NAD C658.

Description Of Issue
Suddenly Tidal MQA albums are making crackling sounds in Roon.
I don’t know whether this is due to Roon 1.7 Build 521 or on the new software update of my NAD C658

In Roon: Qobuz and Tidal (non MQA) are sounding just right…

The strange thing is that the same Tidal MQA albums do NOT make those crackling sounds when I play them directly over Bluesound (i.e. not streaming over my Nucleus)

Any thoughts?

Couple of others mentioned this problem on the same NAD

I’m having the same issue with NAD M10. To work around this problem I’ve disabled MQA capabilities so Roon takes care for MQA decoding now.

NAD C388 with Bluesound, the described crackling sounds appear every 18-25 seconds using all sources (Tidal, Qobuz, NAS) since friday. It NOT appears when running only over Bluesound (without Roon).

Updated Roon Remote on iPad, crackling stopped. Wth…

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