I do have a DragonFly RED, and has not this issue at all.
What do you mean by switching back to core audio?
Have you updated your DF to the latest firmware (the one that brings the MQA Renderer)?
Basically, if I tell the software to use the Red, I get the loud burst of static then silence. If I tell the Mac to use the Red, then I get the static.
It’s a clean install (tried uninatalling properly and reinstalling as well) and it works everywhere else (VLC, browser/YouTube, JRiver, Logic, FCPX, etc.)
Did you have to do anything specific in your settings?
Can you try unselecting the “MQA auto-detection”?
One of the main difference between Audirvana Plus and the other players is the MQA decoder.
Maybe your unit is defective in its MQA part?
This should not be needed to be turned off.
But needing to turn it off tells there must be a conflict with another application.
Do you have the TIDAL desktop player running? If yes, be sure to quit it before launching Audirvana Plus.
Anyway, it now works and yes it sounds a lot better…
Now I just to figure out what to set the upsampling stuff to, if anything at all. Jeez… a google later and I’m basically as confused as I’ve ever been… and I’m a producer for a living! LOL.
I was having issues with my DragonFly Red on a MacBook Pro 13 running Audirvana 2+ through 3.1.5.
Occasionally, at the start of a song, a sound, call it “electronic hash” would be briefly superimposed over the playback.
I tried many solutions, but turning of “Exclusive Access” as noted above solved the problem.
Note that as part of my troubleshooting was to shut down any other program and as many processes as I safely could, but no avail. “Exclusive Access” appears to be the culprit in my case.