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Hello everyone, I'm new here but have been following this particular thread (and a few others) with interest. I have an LG OLED 48C1 and I've been having exactly the same problems as other members have described when using the LG's optical/Toslink out into a Cyrus 82 DAC QXR. The dropouts are only very brief, they happen a few times an hour at most, and only on Freeview broadcast TV.
The consistency with which this issue is affecting other users with high-end DACs is too much of a coincidence, not least because my Cyrus is also based on an ESS chip.
I've written to Cyrus to ask whether there might be a fix along the lines of the one offered to Cambridge Audio, Quad and Audiolab customers, so let's see what happens. In the meantime, I wanted to ask whether the suggestion above of adding the iFi SPDIF Purifier actually worked? @DrDarren @ostewart (or anyone else) could you update us? If the problem is jitter and noise, a reclocker like the iFi would surely help or potentially eliminate the problem altogether? It might also improve the sound more generally given that TVs are well-known for having rubbish optical/Toslink connection.
What do people think? Worth a shot?
The consistency with which this issue is affecting other users with high-end DACs is too much of a coincidence, not least because my Cyrus is also based on an ESS chip.
I've written to Cyrus to ask whether there might be a fix along the lines of the one offered to Cambridge Audio, Quad and Audiolab customers, so let's see what happens. In the meantime, I wanted to ask whether the suggestion above of adding the iFi SPDIF Purifier actually worked? @DrDarren @ostewart (or anyone else) could you update us? If the problem is jitter and noise, a reclocker like the iFi would surely help or potentially eliminate the problem altogether? It might also improve the sound more generally given that TVs are well-known for having rubbish optical/Toslink connection.
What do people think? Worth a shot?
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