Marantz NA7004 & Hi-Res FLAC

[simoncn]

OK, this is conclusive. If you are sure you are not transcoding using MinimStreamer, the problem is caused by a fault in the Marantz FLAC decoder. It is not a fault in MinimServer because MinimServer sends the exact bytes from the FLAC file without looking at the encoding (unless you are transcoding). If I recall correctly, decompressing levels 3 and above requires floating point arithmetic whereas decompressing levels 2 and below doesn't. The Marantz processor might not have native floating-point capability and this would require it to process floating-point calculations in software. This could mean that decompressing a hi-res file using floating-point arithmetic is overloading the capabilities of the Marantz processor.