RE: Alternatives to USB for my DAC

Posted by Presto (A) on May 2, 2015 at 09:48:12

In Reply to: Alternatives to USB for my DAC posted by Noxos on April 29, 2015 at 22:35:35:

Download the DPC latency checker and use it to troubleshoot.
1. I had a wireless network driver cause dropouts every 60s on the button - perhaps a poorly written driver that does something *vitally important* (not) every minute. Fixed that and dropouts were gone.
2. Are you using USB hard drive as well? Is your network adapter USB? Wireless keyboard transmitter? USB hard drive and DAC on the same USB port can be an issue. There are ways to figure out which ports are on which hubs - through the device manager under Universal Serial Bus Controllers. Click on USB Root Hub and Generic USB Hub and look at the power tab. It should show you which devices are on which (shared) hub. This way you can put different high-throughput devices (hard drive, DAC, etc.) on different or even dedicated hubs.
3. Try a USB expansion PCI-e card. Use it first for ONLY the DAC and then second ONLY for the hard drive. The same hub utilization tricks from #2 work here too...
4. Also, you should try and shut down any services you are not using but I cannot give "generic services" advice (due to different machines, OS, software, etc.) but I can say that there is a lot of background software that is just bling and stuff you don't use - and this is especially true with "pro" versions of windows with all kinds of networking features that home users seldom, if ever, use. You can learn up on tweaking services - Google is your friend. You can try www.blackviper.com and check out his windows service configuration tables, but experiment with services you are not 100% certain about at your own risk. It's good to track your default service settings for your machine so you can go back to what you started with if you suddenly have serious issues.

Cheers,
Presto

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Topic - Alternatives to USB for my DAC - Noxos 22:35:35 04/29/15 (19)

Ethernet alternative - Serge_S 12:27:24 05/16/15 (0)

RE: Alternatives to USB for my DAC - coli 16:23:22 05/02/15 (1)

RE: Alternatives to USB for my DAC - beppe61 00:35:57 05/03/15 (0)

RE: Alternatives to USB for my DAC - Presto 09:48:12 05/02/15 (1)

If you must use wireless, consider a wireless bridge - Tony Lauck 14:56:38 05/02/15 (0)

Not the dac it's your computer - Gordon Rankin 06:59:58 05/01/15 (8)

RE: Not the dac it's your computer - Sprezza Tura 17:12:43 05/01/15 (7)

RE: Not the dac it's your computer - Tony Lauck 08:22:48 05/02/15 (5)

Tony thanks! - Gordon Rankin 08:25:05 05/04/15 (4)

RE: Tony thanks! - Tony Lauck 10:08:45 05/04/15 (3)

RE: Tony thanks! - Ugly 08:19:28 05/09/15 (2)

RE: Tony thanks! - Tony Lauck 12:28:18 05/09/15 (1)

Some excellent points you made. - Ugly 13:16:21 05/09/15 (0)

" Ethernet will rule " - beppe61 23:29:46 05/01/15 (0)

RE: Alternatives to USB for my DAC - beppe61 03:09:04 04/30/15 (0)

RE: Alternatives to USB for my DAC - soundchekk 22:57:17 04/29/15 (3)

RE: Alternatives to USB for my DAC - Noxos 23:00:01 04/29/15 (2)

RE: Alternatives to USB for my DAC - noway 08:55:44 04/30/15 (0)

RE: Alternatives to USB for my DAC - Roseval 02:57:55 04/30/15 (0)

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RE: Alternatives to USB for my DAC - Presto 09:48:12 05/02/15 (1)

If you must use wireless, consider a wireless bridge - Tony Lauck 14:56:38 05/02/15 (0)

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