Distortion

[Pete W]

Hi,

I just hooked up my Duet and with most songs I have horrendous distortion at moderate listening levels. It is especially bad in the Live Archives but is present on all stations. I have the Duet going into a Monarchy DIP to a DAC and there is so much crackling and popping it verges on unlistenable.

Could someone please tell me how to fix this. I'm hoping and praying there is one.

Thanks

Pete

[ModelCitizen]

Definitely a problem somewhere, but you probably need to play around a bit and provide more info before the problem can be identified.

Does the receiver (SBR) have the same problem through the analogue outs and/or with local music (not radio)? What differentiates the songs that do distort against the songs that don't?. Have you tried another Dac?

MC

[Phil Leigh]

Hi,

I just hooked up my Duet and with most songs I have horrendous distortion at moderate listening levels. It is especially bad in the Live Archives but is present on all stations. I have the Duet going into a Monarchy DIP to a DAC and there is so much crackling and popping it verges on unlistenable.

Could someone please tell me how to fix this. I'm hoping and praying there is one.

Thanks

Pete

take out the DIP and see what happens...

[opaqueice]

I just hooked up my Duet and with most songs I have horrendous distortion at moderate listening levels. It is especially bad in the Live Archives but is present on all stations. I have the Duet going into a Monarchy DIP to a DAC and there is so much crackling and popping it verges on unlistenable.

Could someone please tell me how to fix this. I'm hoping and praying there is one.

The key with diagnosing these things is to eliminate potential causes one at a time. As ModelCitizen says, try the duet analogue outs. If you don't hear the crackling, that eliminates the source files and most of the Duet internals. Next I'd try removing the DIP. I'd also carefully check all cables and their connections.