Glitchy sounds on 7.1 surround

The last couple of day’s I’ve noticed weird noises comming from my surround back speakers when playing stereo tracks. Some of these noises are from the the track and some sound very glitchy. Normal all stereo track only play on the front speakers. This is only with Audirvana. I have no problems with other players like VLC or Itunes.

Hello @LaZyLiFe,

Can you send me a copy of the “Debug Info” while connected to your DAC? You can get it in Audirvana Settings>General>Debug Info

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

Audirvana Mac Version 3.5.29 (3559)
macOS 10.13.6 with 4096MB RAM

Registered to XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

SIGNAL PROCESSING:

Polarity Inversion:
	Globally: OFF
	Per track: ON
Effects plugins NOT ACTIVE

UPSAMPLING:
SoX with device max frequency upsampling
SoX filter parameters
Bandwidth at 0dB = 99.5
Filter max length = 30000
Anti-aliasing = 100
Phase = 66

AUDIO VOLUME:
Max allowed volume: 100
Replay Gain: by track
SW volume control: OFF

LIBRARY SETTINGS:
Sync list: 17 folders
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/7" Singles
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Afro
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Compilations
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Country & Western
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Electro
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Folk
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Hawaiian & Exotica
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Italian
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Jazz & Blues
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Kids
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Latin
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Monstera Deliciosa
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Musicals & Film Scores
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Pop & Rock
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/RNB & RAP
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Reggae & Dub
AUTO: /Volumes/LaCie/WAV-FLAC Music/Turkish & Arabic
iTunes/Music library synchronization: not synchronized
Library database path: /Users/lazyhome/Library/Application Support/Audirvana/AudirvanaPlusDatabaseV2.sqlite

ACTIVE STREAMING SERVICES

=================== AUDIO DEVICE ========================

CoreAudio audio path, buffer I/O frame size: 512

Max. memory for audio buffers: 1024MB

Local Audio Engine:
Exclusive access: Enabled
Integer mode: Enabled

Preferred device:
HDMI
Model UID:AppleHDA:3
UID:AppleHDAEngineOutputDP:8,5,1,0:0:{CB3D-0E61-00000000}

Active Sample Rate: 44.1kHz
Hog Mode is off

Bridge settings:
Sample rate limitation: none
Sample rate switching latency: none
Limit bitdepth to 24bit: OFF
Mute during sample rate change: OFF

Selected device:
Local audio device
ID 0x2f HDMI Manufacturer:Apple Inc.
Model UID:AppleHDA:3 UID:AppleHDAEngineOutputDP:8,5,1,0:0:{CB3D-0E61-00000000}

7 available sample rates up to 192000Hz
32000
44100
48000
88200
96000
176400
192000
Audio buffer frame size : 14 to 4096 frames
Current I/O buffer frame size : 512
Volume Control
Physical: No
Virtual: No
MQA capability
Auto-detect MQA devices: No
Not a MQA device, user set to not MQA
DSD capability: Unhandled
Device audio channels
Multichannel: 8 channels
Preferred stereo channels L:1 R:2
Channel bitmap: Ox3f, layout:
Channel 0 mapped to 0
Channel 1 mapped to 1
Channel 2 mapped to 2
Channel 3 mapped to 3
Channel 4 mapped to 4
Channel 5 mapped to 5
Channel 6 unused
Channel 7 unused

Audio channels in use
Number of channels: 8
Use as stereo device only: No
Simple stereo device: No

1 output streams:
Number of active channels: 8, in 1 stream(s)
Channel #0 :Stream 0 channel 0
Channel #1 :Stream 0 channel 1
Channel #2 :Stream 0 channel 2
Channel #3 :Stream 0 channel 3
Channel #4 :Stream 0 channel 4
Channel #5 :Stream 0 channel 5
Channel #6 :Stream 0 channel 6
Channel #7 :Stream 0 channel 7

Stream ID 0x30 8 channels starting at 1
14 virtual formats:
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 192kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 192kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 176.4kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 176.4kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 96kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 96kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 88.2kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 88.2kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 48kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 48kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 44.1kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 44.1kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 32kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 32kHz

42 physical formats
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 192kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 192kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 176.4kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 176.4kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 96kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 96kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 88.2kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 88.2kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 48kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 48kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 44.1kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 44.1kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 32kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 24 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 32kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 192kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 192kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 176.4kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 176.4kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 96kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 96kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 88.2kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 88.2kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 48kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 48kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 44.1kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 44.1kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 32kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 20 little endian Signed Integer aligned low in 32bit 32kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 192kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 192kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 176.4kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 176.4kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 96kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 96kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 88.2kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 88.2kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 48kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 48kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 44.1kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 44.1kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 32kHz
8 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 16 little endian Signed Integer 32kHz

Local devices found : 3
Device #0: ID 0x3d Built-in Output Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Model UID: AppleHDA:3 UID: AppleHDAEngineOutput:8,0,1,2:0
Device #1: ID 0x2f HDMI Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Model UID: AppleHDA:3 UID: AppleHDAEngineOutputDP:8,5,1,0:0:{CB3D-0E61-00000000}
Device #2: ID 0x2a USB AUDIO CODEC Manufacturer: BurrBrown from Texas Instruments Model UID: USB AUDIO CODEC:08BB:29C0 UID: AppleUSBAudioEngine:BurrBrown from Texas Instruments:USB AUDIO CODEC:6400000:1

UPnP devices found : 0

@Antoine only removed my name for privacy reasons.

Since you have upsampling activated, can you change this settings to “Power fo 2” or deactivate it?

@Antoine I cannot change anything in audio settings.

To change your audio settings you’ll need to stop your audio (the square icon)

@Antoine Yes changed to deactivate.

@Antoine Seems to be fixed. thanks!

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