I have heard a similar "clipping" type of distortion intermittently. It usually involves the left channel, occasionally the right, but always seems to involve one channel only. I have not been able to determine specific circumstances that cause it, but I suspect it is a wireless network issue. It occurs with my SB3, Receiver, and Touch simultaneously (when all three are synced), both from the digital outputs and from the analog. When it occurs, it is very obvious, particularly with solo piano music.
This weekend, I am going to bring my router and computer together with the squeezeboxes and connect all with ethernet cable to see whether this prevents it. I am using FLAC 44.1K files exclusively, on my server. I have watched the Windows Task Manager Performance and Network monitors on my server during these episodes, and there seems to be plenty of CPU and network resources available. I can't imagine how a connectivity issue could cause this type of distortion, rather than simple gaps. I am sure it is not an issue with the FLAC files themselves, since the same file can play cleanly one time and distorted the next. I will report whether removing the wireless networking fixes the problem. If so, I sure hope to be able to fix it, since using the system with wifi is one of its greatest attractions. Jack -- JIJ3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JIJ3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36534 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78774 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
