HD Dac Clicking/cracking noise between songs + "White noise"

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Hi,

I’m using the HD DAC to play music on Spotify.

Between the songs, there are clicking/cracking noises and “white noise” during periods that are meant to be silent.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it an HD DAC hardware issue or related to Spotify?

Any fixes for this?

2

I`m going to test a better Power Supply - in my initial test, I used a standard USB-C Power Supply

3

Excellent place to start, cheap capacitor dropper or switching chargers can induce a lot of spurious noise into digital and audio circuitry.

4

Could it be due to a network issue? You can try using the AudFree Spotify PC Downloader to download Spotify music first, then upload it to your playback device via a USB drive.