ZH3 cuts off first bit of audio (Less than 1 sec)

[FawzyS]

The ZH3 is connected to my MacBook Pro via thunderbolt and playing through Sennheiser HD598's. It cuts off the first few tenths of a second of sounds that it is beginning to play. I am CERTAINLY willing to concede that I may not have everything connected properly.

I really like the sound (once it starts playing) and don't want to send this back. Any advice on things to try?

Fawzy

 

[Captain828]

This actually seems to be a common issue with most modern DACs and it has to do with how they handle audio streams and going to sleep when there is no signal.

When using the ASIO driver, there is a hidden setting in the driver that you can enable, which prevents sleep and is known as always-on streaming.
Not sure how that works for Mac.

For Windows, you can use https://github.com/vrubleg/soundkeeper to output a continuous but silent stream to the DAC, preventing this issue from occurring.

This fixed my problem on Windows with the ZH3 but I'm not sure if there is something similar for Mac.

 

[JosephySmult]

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