White noise occurs when using DSP/sample rate conversion

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@Masahiro_Watanabe

Chord

If I remember I’ve seen talking about that. And maybe a solution

HQP and Chord Qutest

It’s a classic Chord DAC issue. If you haven’t had the issue with HQP Client yet, it’s only a matter of time, it will happen. It’s been reported with various Chord DACs for years, over on head-fi. It’s a USB interface issue. If you want high sample rates to feed Qutest, I think Audiowise SRC DX works trouble free (from what I’ve read by others)

Chord DACs: USB Vs. S/PDIF

Hi Martin I have a Qutest and have gone a little way down the rabbit hole on USB vs SPDIF. An important consideration for me is my preference for HQPlayer and upsampling to the maximum PCM rate of the Qutest 705k/768k. Using USB I was often the victim of brain frying white noise on occasion, normally when the base rate switched from 44.1k to 48k family. I noticed some discussions about a device that converts USB to dual BNC (SPDIF) namely the SRC-DX. The thread below on AS is one such and fol…