Hi again, I just thought I'd do some tests to confirm what I'm hearing and to actually put a figure on how much is actually missing from the beginning of the audio track.
So I recorded the output from the DAC into Audacity and then opened the original FLAC file to compare and this is the result:
So the top two traces are the original FLAC file and the bottom two are the output from the dac which I time shifted in Audacity so that they lined up perfectly. When I zoom in I can see that it is actually 0.4s that is missing from the beginning of the track.
Obviously on the vast majority of tracks it is not an issue because they either have a second or so lead in silence or they fade in. It is just the few tracks that start abruptly that cause an issue and then only if they are the first track in a playlist. As it happens the track I selected for this test is the first track on an album so always exhibits this behaviour when I listen to the complete album.
Anyway, I hope this provides some usefull information.
Regards
