Re: [slim] Stuttering while players are synced - Possible Benchmark DAC3 issue
Stratmangler wrote: > Use the coax connection and your connection problems go away. > Optical does not support 24/192. > If you sync players LMS sends files that the lowest spec player can > handle, which means that it will downsample anything higher than 24/96 > on the fly, assuming that you've connected one to a 24/192 capable DAC, > and the other via the analogue audio outputs. Thanks for this. I ditched the USB cables, switched to coax and moved a DAC into the 3rd room and all of the problems have gone away. All working flawlessly now. Many thanks! Colesy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57465 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stuttering while players are synced - Possible Benchmark DAC3 issue
Colesy wrote: > The touch is connected via USB. I'll be doing some testing with other > digital connections and post back results. > Use the coax connection and your connection problems go away. Optical does not support 24/192. If you sync players LMS sends files that the lowest spec player can handle, which means that it will downsample anything higher than 24/96 on the fly, assuming that you've connected one to a 24/192 capable DAC, and the other via the analogue audio outputs. Chris :) Stratmangler's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stuttering while players are synced - Possible Benchmark DAC3 issue
Colesy wrote: > Thanks for the replies. I thought I had fixed this by fixing all player > outputs at 100% but unfortunately it hasn't. Fixing player output at 100% will not have any effect on syncing. What are the Flac file characteristics ? How many players are being synced ? Are they all identical ? The choice of player to be "master" can affect the sync group. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stuttering while players are synced - Possible Benchmark DAC3 issue
Thanks I'll read through that. Another thing I've noticed this evening is that after a reset one stuttering track then played fine. Initially the track rather than stuttering actually seemed to speed through. So a 3 minute track played in about 30 seconds in stuttering segments. All very strange! Colesy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57465 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stuttering while players are synced - Possible Benchmark DAC3 issue
Interesting thread here https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?110197-LMS-Max-number-of-players-and-how-to-reduce-latency=934105=1#post934105 Man in a van's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43627 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stuttering while players are synced - Possible Benchmark DAC3 issue
Thanks for the replies. I thought I had fixed this by fixing all player outputs at 100% but unfortunately it hasn't. To answer a few questions. All players are wired. The touch is connected via USB. I'll be doing some testing with other digital connections and post back results. I've just upgraded to the latest version of LMS so will test with this before making any other changes. I was running 7.7.6. I'm using the old DAC in another room with another Touch which is working fine. I previously had the server on a Windows 7 PC which no longer works so going to 10 seemed the easiest way to keep all playlists etc. The server side seems to be working fine to be fair. Thanks again for any ideas! Colesy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57465 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stuttering while players are synced - Possible Benchmark DAC3 issue
>From the initial post, it sounds as if two things have been changed: the server running LMS and a new DAC. It's also not clear whether the same set of FLAC files playing on the same group of players used to work before either of these changes. Be systematic about the diagnosis. Go back to how things were before, and introduce one change at a time. Take the guesswork out of it. (FWIW, if you want a dedicated LMS server, Windows 10 is the last platform I'd pick) Transporter -> ATC SCM100A cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stuttering while players are synced - Possible Benchmark DAC3 issue
How is the Touch connected to the Benchmark? If you put your old DAC back in place of the Benchmark, does the problem go away? Apesbrain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=738 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stuttering while players are synced - Possible Benchmark DAC3 issue
More hard info. What version of LMS ? How are the player connected wired or wireless ? What are the characteristics of the Flac tracks - sample rate, sample size e.g. 44.1Khz 16bit vs 192kHz 24bit bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Stuttering while players are synced - Possible Benchmark DAC3 issue
I've recently moved my server to a dedicated Windows 10 PC and seem to have a new issue. It could be to do with how the server is setup or the new hardware, hopefully someone will be able to help! When quite a few FLAC tracks are played synced on two or more Touch players there are sound issue. On one player it skips from one part of the track to the other, missing parts out on another there is quite bad audible distortion. Playback on one player with the Does anyone have any pointers on what might be causing this? Both the players have the Enhanced Digital Output installed. Would be great to get them working correctly again as this is one of my favourite features of the Squeezebox system. Many thanks in advance! While I was writing this I did some investigations and it seems the issue could be associated with a new DAC that one of the Touches plays through. A Benchmark DAC3 HGC. When first plugged in the message "DAC not connected" is displayed. When I first set up I ignored this as everything seemed to be fine after exiting the message. But it looks likely that this is most likely the root of the issue. Colesy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57465 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
