Burst of Static Noise

Studio Device connectivity
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Hi, I’m testing out Audirvana and it was working fine for half an hour and then suddenly there was very loud static, loud enough to damage my ears or headphones. I quickly paused, changed tracks and when I started again it was still just static so I closed the app.

I was streaming to my DAC’s internal streamer (Gustard R26) via LAN.
I have never once heard my DAC make sounds like this in over a year of use with other streaming software.

I see I’m not the first person to have this issue either. Is there a known fix? This thread suggests I increase the buffer but my buffer is already 32GB (I have 64GB RAM).
https://community.audirvana.com/t/loud-white-noise-static-first-song/33193/27

Suggestions? I simply cannot buy this software if this issue remains.

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You shouldn’t need to set the buffer so large try 8000 mb perhaps, Audirvāna does seem to have sometimes a problem keeping control of UPNP devices. In my personal experience using a couple of different devices it’s long tracks and high res files that can most often be problematic. Redbook seems like it works more reliably.
Best luck with it.

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Thanks. For what it’s worth, 32GB is what it defaulted to. I’ll give 8GB a shot.

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It always gets quite greedy, we had a bit of an conversation about it actually starving the operating system in some cases.

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Oh and maybe this is related, maybe not, I noticed it shows that it’s seemingly doing a conversion to 64 bit?? I have PCM bitdepth limit set to 20 bits since that’s the dynamic range of my DAC but it shows 64 in the attached screenshot and I can’t figure out why.
Screenshot 2023-12-01 143958

EDIT: this is not the issue, it’s just saying the computer is processing in 64 bits which is normal

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Computers works at 64bits, all normal.

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Hi @gammi,

Can you send us a copy of the “Debug Info” when you have your Gustard selected? You can get it in Audirvana Settings>My account

Note: By clicking on the Debug Info button, Audirvana automatically copies all its content, all you have to do is paste it in response to this message

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Just experienced this issue, was concerned for my sperlse.eakers, apart from everything else.

Is the suggested change to the buffer size the accepted solution, ort has something else been done?

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