Does anyone experience sound improvement from restarting power off and on of DAC?
Does anyone experience an improvement in sound from restarting the DAC every week or so by powering off for a minute and then restarting the power back on? I’ve noticed that with my PS Audio Directstream Mk1 that I get a lot of improvement in sound if I power off at the power switch at the back of the dac for a minute and then restart the dac. I find by doing this once every 5 days or so much improves the sound quality. Does anyone else experience this? I have been told on several occasions that this is normal and not to worry.
+1 @audioman58 My BDA-3 dac and Roon Titan have been on since coming out of their boxes. They were powered off once for ~2 days due to a powerful storm and subsequent power outage. Noticeable difference in SQ upon power up. As stated above the Directstream is clearing out the cache and resetting/synchronizing clock/buffers etc. I would keep doing it, but only for the minute you had said above. Regards, barts
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Every streamer is a single purpose computer and every computer operating system benefits from the occasional reboot. It does not surprise me to hear of a streamer's performance improve with a power cycle. Now a DAC is another story. They are much simpler devices and are much less likly o be improved by a power cycle unless you do have a heat/ventilation issue. Is for my I build my own streamers with a custom Linux that caters to sound processing. |
