Hello everyone, Over the past few months, I’ve been experiencing an issue when using the USB-B input of my A8 as a DAC for my computer audio: Everything works fine when no audio is playing, but irregular popping sounds occasionally occur during playback. This problem is quite perplexing. After reviewing many forum threads, I’ve concluded it’s likely related to clock frequencies (CPU and RAM frequencies). I’ve tried two solutions myself: Uninstalling NVIDIA GPU drivers. Locking the CPU frequency. Both methods were effective, but they’re not sustainable long-term solutions. Aside from these, another suggestion was to connect via USB 2.0. I tried this, and while it improved the situation slightly, the popping didn’t disappear completely. Notably, this issue doesn’t occur with Android or Apple devices—only with my PC. Do the developers have any better solutions? - My PC Specifications: OS: Windows 11 Build 27881.1000 CPU: Intel i9-14900K Motherboard: Z790-P GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4080 16G RAM: 192GB -原文(original)- 各位好，最近几个月我在使用A8的USB-B输入当我电脑音频解码的时候经常出现：不播放音频时一切正常，播放音频时偶尔出现不规律的爆音；这个问题很诡异，看了不少帖子，总结应该是和频率（CPU频率和内存频率）有关。我自己卸载nvidia显卡驱动、CPU锁频两个方案都有效，但是不可能一直这样。 目前除开上面两个方法之外还有一个是说用USB2.0的方式接入，我试了一下确实会稍微改善一点，但不会完全消失 安卓设备以及苹果设备都没有出现这种问题，唯独电脑会有 请问开发人员有什么更好的解决方案么？
Wow!!! A machine like that, and the OS still cannot cope well with USB3 asynchronous data transfer... An i9 with 192GB RAM!!!! It is literally unimaginable! Switch to Linux. With the same hardware, it will take off...
You've installed the Windows USB Driver for Eversolo, just in case. Connect and Use Eversolo Streamers with a PC https://www.eversolo.com/Support/support_guide/guide_target/OyXaR3Nh2gneq7k9e[ld]3ulg==.html
Are you kidding me? You now need a special driver for a universally accepted standard?!?!? Well, my question was intended to be sarcastic, I guess you got it... still sad, though.
- Yes, I installed this driver a long time ago, but it doesn't seem to have improved anything. Even when using ASIO mode, I still encounter audio crackling and popping issues... settings:4096samples √safe mode
For reference, my driver settings. I have no experience with popping sound with this setting. I'm sorry I didn't help you.
Recently, I unexpectedly discovered that the crackling sounds had disappeared. After investigating, I found that I’d been running a virtual machine in the background on my computer lately. This likely occupied resources and suppressed the CPU's Turbo Boost, which then caused the crackling to vanish. Later, I successfully confirmed this phenomenon: when my computer was idle with no background tasks, playing music often resulted in crackling sounds. But once the computer entered a heavy load state, the crackling disappeared. It’s really fascinating! - 最近我意外的发现爆音情况消失了，经过我排查，最近我电脑后台挂着虚拟机在运行，可能是这块占用着性能抑制着cpu睿频，然后爆音消失；之后也成功证实了这个现象，电脑无后台空闲的时候播放音乐经常会发生爆音，一旦电脑进入重高负载 爆音情况就消失，太神奇了
Ehm, no. It's not fascinating... it's just how things work when you overload your system while expecting real-time performance. Especially from a Windows machine.
