When you say the signal was crackling, was this while a disc was playing or without a signal going through the DAC at the time? If the latter, it is normal to hear that digital crackling, at least with my DAC. Otherwise I'm not sure what the problem is--how can you have an analog input on a DAC, though? Most DACs only have digital inputs.
digital output crackling
I've just purchased on Audiogon, a magnan digital coaxial cable to run from my cd player to a dac. When I connected last night, the signal was "crackling" I took the cable to work today, and hooked up a cd player into an audio board and the sound was fine. Could a cable sound right with analog to analog, but not into a dac? Doesn't seem right to me. The input on the dac is analog as well. Could it be that I did not have the rca's connected fully? Any thoughts would be apprecieated
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