Potentially a powered USB hub. If you want one specifically for audio, a Schiit Wyrd (if you can find one used since they’re discontinued) or an Uptone Regen. There may be others, but not aware.
Jitterbug is not powered I don’t think. Problem is, if the pops and clicks are due to power drops, this won’t help, it’s just a passive filter. What’s your USB setup?
Apparently driver problems can cause this as well, even drivers for other devices for things like graphics chips etc, they can hog resources from USB devices. Also, power settings can be adjusted in some cases for your USB. May want to make sure everything is up to date and google some things before buying a new device (which may not fix it).
@rlow is on point. In addition, you could adjust the buffer on asio to see if that helps. also check to see if the dap firmware or drivers have changed. And certain versions of Windows have been know to f**k up USB audio. A win update may or may not help. The pops are timing problems. And why are you going from a source to a source?
Have you tried another player, just curious? Like JRiver or even VLC? If your buffer is high on Foobar, have you tried going down to 1000 or even lower?
I am going to try something over the weekend. I have a dac that exhibits some rando clicks just like you get when I use the ASIO driver and Tidal. When I switch back to wasapi it is fine. My theory is that I am using this desktop to do lots of web surfing as I listen to music. BAAAD idea for best sound. Let me confirm but it could be irq issues.
Something that bad from could be caused by DPC Latency. There are free tools to check. You might find it easy to fix, eg by disabling some driver, or a complete nightmare. Plague for an audio PC. When I had it, a decade ago, I eventually... simply got a new machine :/
It's been ten years (thank god)... Google can advise further better than I can
It's probably premature to celebrate, but I followed @Thad E Ginathom's advice and googled DPC latency. I found a suggestion to use Intel Driver & Support Assistant. It told me I needed to update my WIFI and BT driver (not sure why Lenovo's software updater didn't tell me to do this). Anyway since installing, the pops are gone. Since my BT is off, I suspect it was a bum WIFI driver. Thanks for the suggestion Thad!
Glad to be of service. In fact, absolutely delighted that my suggestion might be even roughly right!
Now you come to mention it, I recall wifi drivers being mentioned as a regular trouble causer way back then.
This is one of those things that should have ceased to be a problem years ago, But hey, PCs and windows! Do run one of the DPC Latency checker tools, if they still make them for W10
I used LatencyMon. It finds potential Wifi issues and throttling might be to blame. I was told to disable wifi and switch my power setting on my laptop to best performance to avoid throttling.
The pops kind of come and go, but overall they've been reduced. It's all pretty mysterious to me.
It's fairly mysterious to me too, because even though I worked in IT, as a systems manager, I never studied computer science, and have only basic ideas of function at that level. I just know that audio is considered lower priority than video and some other stuff and sometimes lower priority processes just get told to wait. The wait can be long enough to cause drop outs.
No solution to the pops. However I have discovered that my battery has started to drain very slowly while plugged in. I have also noticed that I can hear a very faint HDD like noise when I move my mouse.
It's a laptop? It's easy to say, because I use an under-desk anyway, but I'd be disinclined to use a laptop for serious audiophiliousness. Partly because of those power supplies. No audiophoolery, I think it is accepted that they can and do put audio-affecting noise into the system. But if it's good on battery, you have a solution. As long as the battery lasts.
Except... Noise when moving the mouse is another classic DPC Latency symptom. Not necessarily because of the mouse, but because of the video: the system prioritises the display of that moving mouse.
But shouldn't that make video impossible to watch? Good point: I don't know.
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