[Kelly]

PS: By refering to just one track I will have inadvertently implied that the static is track dependant. No! That track has a long lead-in so is perfect to hear the static. It only comes when PLAY is pressed; and stops if PAUSE is pressed. The static is present on a variety of DSD files (.dsf) including DSD64, DSD128 and DSD256. Static can be heard on all of them whilst PLAYING to the PS-AUDIO DAC.

[Kelly]

Thanks for those ideas Tiki.

The planned tests were run today in the local HiFi shop where they kindly allowed me to use my notebook and USB cables (and one of theirs) to play the same track that causes static at my home. The DAC was an EverSolo DMP-A10.

I first checked on the EverSolo website and found an ASIO USB Driver, downloaded, and installed it to my Windows-11 notebook.

I think that I selected the driver from a list of drivers inside TuneBrowser; perhaps if I had restarted TuneBrowser it may have selected it automatically? No matter, it played perfectly with NO STATIC – EXCELLENT. Tried all three USB cables, all very good!

Conclusion: Nothing wrong with TuneBrowser, nor my notebook, nor my USB cables.

It was a very helpful session, and you now have another DAC known to work with DSD256 Tiki :-).

Next: See if PS Audio have released a newer ASIO USB driver, if so, download and install it.

I have recently updated two different firmwares to the DAC so that is all current.

Enough excitement for today, I will continue with this project tomorrow.
Thanks for helping 🙂

[Kelly]

I think I can clarify the OPs (good) idea as follows:

If your playlist includes many tracks from many albums from many artists it would sometimes be very satisfying to play the tracks in the order that they were released “over the years”. Thus the session would perhaps evolve roughly to era of years and perhaps once a track from one artist is selected, all that artists (selected) tracks would play from when the artist was young to when s/he became old then older.

The point is, if we get a chance to have multiple/cascading SORT-ORDER selection parameters it gives all sorts of interesting possibilities/preferences. In other players this is done by holding down CTRL key when clicking the 2nd then 3rd etc fields.

I may be wrong, so please respond if this helps or hinders your request of Tiki.

Best wishes,

[Kelly]

Also, it is important to note that there is no static when playing lesser quality music files, even 24bit 192khz .flac files play beautifully with the same long 5m (17 feet) AudioQuest ‘Forest’ USB cable.

I fear that the noise could be inherent in using a notebook-computer to run TuneBrowser? They are notoriously “noisy” devices (as a generalisation). My music player hardware is a Microsoft “Surface Book 2”, about four years old. I have tried removing the AC supply so that runs on internal battery, but it makes no difference. The computer, DAC and AMP are all running off a good quality APC UPS which I trust is cleaning up our very dirty AC 220v input.

My external DAC is apparently opto-isolated so it should be stopping as much as that technique can:

PS Audio “PerfectWave DirectStream DAC MK2”. https://www.psaudio.com/products/directstream-dac-mk2

[typo in prior post: explorer should be exploring].

Thanks

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