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I've had a lot of problems with USB DACs as well. I frequently find that audio degrades into a kind of stuttering or static that doesn't go away until a reboot
by SloopJon 6y ago
I've had a lot of problems with USB DACs as well. I frequently find that audio degrades into a kind of stuttering or static that doesn't go away until a reboot. I've experienced this with multiple DACs (Aune, Centrance, O2, and Presonus) on multiple machines (iMac 5K, 16" MacBook Pro, and hackintosh). I feel like it's worse in recent versions of macOS (say, High Sierra and later), but it's intermittent, so it's hard to say.
- washadjeffmad 6y agoI always wondered whether Linux would become MacOS faster than MacOS could become Linux, but I honestly never expected it would be MacOS that would be the one with unrepairably buggy sound device quirks, no support for features of advertised display specs like MST, a condition that requires logic board replacemnt when you try to use the GPU after the battery fully discharges because of T2/BridgeOS, and power/USB problems that cause the computer to crash if you plug/unplug mouse and keyboard while docked over USB-C. I fixed most of these things running Linux on my MacBook Pro, but if I didn't care whether or not my computer worked, I wouldn't have chosen Apple.
- SkyPuncher 6y agoI had a long but with a FiiO USB Dac where it's drop the volume of one audio channel. I'd have to go into MIDI settings and even it back out.