Collecting bugs of X-SABRE 3

[Enrico_1425]

I did a few more tests during the weekend and listened to the X-Sabre 3 on Saturday for more than 6 hours non stop. I never had a single drop with any kind of files, which is good. But, MQA playback is definite broken so I just setup in Roon the X-SABRE 3 as “No MQA Support” so that way all MQA files play as FLAC. That solved the MQA playback issues temporarily until Matrix Audio fix this nasty bug.

TIDAL Connect is also broken. It takes 4 secs for a song to start no mater the sampling rate or if it’s MQA or not. It also skip songs because they time out. Of course, this makes playback no gapless as well. Searching on Google, I found that Bluesound OS streamers had the same exact TIDAL Connect issues that I’m having just 6 months ago and they got them fixed with the latest firmware released on June 23th.

https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/..._site=true

DLNA playback using mConnect app works but it takes for a song to start between 4 to 6 secs, then playback is gapless. Also pausing a song and resuming it is fast like it should be. My ARCAM ST60 is faster when loading the first song or when skipping tracks when using mConnect app as it takes 3 secs instead of 6 secs. Everything else works the same as the X-SABRE 3.

Airplay and Spotify Connect work without glitches.

BTW, the X-SABRE 3 is a great sounding streamer, it only needs these bugs to be fixed to be the perfect streamer.