Comment by donatj
5 months ago
Well dang. I have had intention on buying a new DAC largely due to the issue; for better or worse there goes that plan.
5 months ago
Well dang. I have had intention on buying a new DAC largely due to the issue; for better or worse there goes that plan.
I also didn't realize that this problem was common, but I switched to using an optical toslink cable to an external DAC which seems to have fixed it for me. Although now the system volume control doesn't work, but I can work around that with the volume control on my amp.
soundsource gives you the feature to control an external dac with the system volume. I bought it specifically for this use case.
I haven't tried Apple "certified" Thunderbolt devices yet, but others in the huge Apple thread [0] has and still experience cracks/pops.