Audio cuts out every few seconds

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I just purchased a Sprout 100 off of Amazon and am having a problem with audio cutting out for a split-second every 8 - 10 seconds. I am using optical in from my Samsung TV as the source. I have tried multiple cables and multiple headphones. But the audio drops keep happening. I both this $600 dac/amp to replace a $30 dac/amp that was working fine. I just couldn’t get enough volume out of it.

Are these audio dropouts a known issue? Does anyone have any advice on what may be causing this and how I can fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

JEff

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That’s certainly not something common. I might suspect the cable or the device feeding it. Do you have another? Can you make sure the optical is plugged in snugly?

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Hey @ BigLoudJeff,

Email me tjt@psaudio.com and let’s figure out what’s going on here.

Sorry about the troubles!

-TJ

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Ooo! And make sure the TV is set to PCM output and not Dolby too.

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Welcome Jeff, hope you’re enjoying everything about the unit other than these drop outs. TJ is absolutely right. Make sure the TV is outputting a PCM signal and is two channel.

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I wonder if a USB in would be better? I’ve never had good luck with optical connections.
Congrats on the Sprout, you’ll love it. I listen to mine almost daily…and that’s after I went to the Stellar system (my main system). The jump from Sprout to Stellar happens easily…but the Sprout100 is really a nice piece.

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I tried several different optical and audio cables and headphones. All combinations exhibited the drop outs. ANd I do have my TV set to PCM out via optical. The Samsung TV does not offer any USB audio options.

Thanks,

Jeff

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Jeff I have the same problem with a Samsung TV and my Stellar GCD. I even had Samsung come replace the main board in my TV under warranty because I was sure it was the TV. After the replacement it still did the same thing even using different optical cables. I made sure I was running PCM output from the TV also. I got an HDMI ARC converter that I thought would solve the problem by running HDMI ARC into the converter and optical out to the GCD from the converter but that didn’t even work. Now I just run the RCA analog out from the converter into the GCD and that works. I paid around $20 for the converter on Amazon. I think the sample rate coming from the TV is weird at 48 KHz but I don’t know if that has anything to do with it or not. I kept intending to call PS about the problem with the optical input from the TV but never did.

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Hey, if you come up with a solution for Jeff let me know because I would like to go directly from my TV to the GCD with an optical connection and bypass the HDMI converter I’m using. Thanks!

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Hey Robert,

Go ahead and email me as well, we’ll get you set up.

Thanks!

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I’m guessing it is your tuner or service provider.

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Turned out to be OTA antenna causing the issue in Robert’s setup, but we’re going to see a new unit may solve Jeff’s problem.

Optical is so sensitive, even just a bit out of spec connection may result in this problem, but as you see, not always.

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