DSD ‘Pops’

[simoncn]

The processor is the HS-210 is not very powerful and lacks floating-point support, so floating-point calculations must be emulated in software. Transcoding from DSF to WAV requires floating-point calculations. If you look at Resource Monitor on the NAS while you are playing a transcoded DSF file, you will see CPU usage rising to 100%.

The only solution is to buy a more powerful NAS with floating-point support. I have an HS-251+ and I have been very pleased with it. It has floating-point support and a fast enough processor for any transcoding combination.