u/Big_Bike_7969

At the moment I'm using a Pixel 8 connected by USB (usually) to B&W Px8 S2 headphones or by case to B&W Pi8 earbuds. I use Qobuz native client on the Pixel 8. I've tried UAPP but found it a bit too complicated to set up and keep working.

I'm happy with the setup. But I think I would like to take it a step further.

I've been looking closely at the M33 R2R and might have bought it by now if not for Bloom not selling it yet. I plan to upgrade the headphones shortly after but, for now, I have an old set of Sony MDR-7506 headphones. Maybe Hifiman or something similar within the next few months.

But, I'm not sure. I'm not really interested in convenience or non-music features. If it doesn't sound at least marginally better than what I'm using now then it would be a mistake. But if it provides the same noticeable leap my current setup did over my old setup (Pixel 8, Amazon Music Unlimited, Sony WH-1000XM5) then it would be a success.

I'm curious what others think about this progression. Am I going down a good path with decent products in mind? Obviously I'm not an audiophile but love listening to music and really appreciate when I can hear things I never noticed before.

I've had a few issues with Bitwarden on my PC (app) and the Chrome extension.

First, I've noticed that Bitwarden is running higher CPU than it has in the past even when it is minimized to the system tray. It's only about 3% but my SPro9 never really ran 3% for anything ongoing. I think it is the app as, when I quit it, the CPU utilization overall drops to 0 to 2% when idling. I'm getting this from watching Task Manager. I run the app so I can use Windows Hello to log in with the chrome extension.

Next, once or twice a day (not every time), the chrome extension locks up when authenticating. As mentioned, I use Windows Hello to log in. It was flawless in the past. When it happens, I have to terminate Bitwarden and Chrome (I think, I do it each time anyway) using the Task Manager. On the next try, it generally works.

This could be Windows Security or Windows Hello I guess but it only seems to be happening with Bitwarden.

Generally, I just hope others have the same problems I have and they usually get fixed within a release or two. But this has been going on for a while now.

Is this a known issue? Any ideas for fixing?

I thought this was a UAPP issue but it is also happening on Audirvana on Win11. I'm using the case for retrans.

I can start a playlist with songs of mixed formats. It seems that, when the next song is a different sample rate than the previous song the app shows it is still playing but there is no sound from the earbuds.

To restore audio, I have to unpug the case, plug it back in and then hit play. It continues on until the next track that is at a different sample rate.

My goal is to play bit-perfect without any resampling or other processing. I'm using Qobuz as the source. I don't know what to do.

Gemini says I'm losing clock-sync during transition but Gemini has been terribly wrong lately. Besides, I wouldn't know how to resolve that issue anyway.