I’m experiencing weird crackling noise and distortion on a new Port through SPDIF output (streaming from Spotify).
It sounds like digital clipping, and is most noticeable on low volume parts of songs.
its not always there, sometimes it starts playing without it, but it always appears after a short while (or maybe I start noticing it after a while).
output is set to “fixed” in the app, like recommended for use with external DACs, but in other modes the noise is also present.
Sound from analog output is fine, but I bought Port to use with my own DAC, and don’t want to use analog output.
I’ve never experienced anything like that with any other digital components.
I tried connecting to 2 different DACs and also tried to pass Port’s spdif signal through a reclocker and also through spdif to toslink optical converter. Did not help. (All devices are known to work fine with other sources)
Has anyone experienced anything like that? Do you think my unit is broken/DOA?
any advise would be appreciated.
thanks!