jitter

@yage,  the only indication would be if power is interupted...we shall see what happens with a "better" streamer....the manufacturer of the DAC in question has created a fix, which I believe increases some sort of buffer to accept higher degrees a jitter

Hopefully that fixes things. Given what you've posted, I think most signs are pointing to something going wrong on the DAC since replacing it with another DAC solves the issue.

+1 @yage....manufacturer is sending an updated model which will have an way to adjust for jitter in the input

>> "manufacturer is sending an updated model which will have an way to adjust for jitter in the input"

That's my story and I'm sticking with it!

No.