Popping through my Asus Xonar DX

[balls]

I must say I love this little thing, but one thing is very very annoying; when ever there is a sudden sound and when its not been playing any audio for a fraction of a second, it sounds like ther is a power spike and it makes a very loud poping sound through the speakers.

I bought it as an upgrade to an old creative soundblaster audigy, which made absolutely no popping at all. I notice it most when going through vista and clicking on folders etc, as you only hear a loud pop.

Its in a PCI-x slot, and has the floppy drive connector, however when in a pci-e slot it made no difference. The rest of the spec below

 

[james.miller]

are you using analogue or digital (DDLive or dts, doesnt happen with PCM at all as far as i know)


there are issues with various cards where they seem to stop sending a DD/DTS signal if nothings going on. it only seems to happen with the odd card and speaker/amp set up, and nobody really knows what causes it or how to fix it. thats a bit vague i know :/ it did that to me once on a x-mystique, but the problem suddenly vanished one day. very odd.

if its analogue, it should be doing that at all.

 

[jbloggs]

If I remember correctly, I did read something a while ago, that (in XP) muting "Line in" in the Play Control panel can help improve playback quality....

 

[balls]

Appear to have fixed it, was using analogue, but the sample rate was set at 192KHz, setting it down seems to have sorted it. Thanks for the responce