Two Questions

[Lttlwing16]

Making sure you are delivering adequate power (voltage and current both) to the Pi and associated devices is step #1. 

As an aside, in a weak moment some years ago, I bought an IFI 5V supply and found the DC>microUSB adapter so problematic that I ended up tossing the supply in a drawer. I thought about cutting off the barrel connectors and soldering the wires directly instead but official Raspberry Pi power supplies have been working very reliably for me so I never bothered. Any noise these supplies hypothetically might be injecting into the audio chain is inaudible to me in my listening environment.

Regards,
Kent

Thanks Kent,

I'm just still struggling to understand from a power supply issue, how playing a 16/44.1 file can correct the playback of 24/96 files. So baffling.  

Your experience is interesting..I always felt a $50 switching power supply was a rip-off.. that said, I chose the ifi power supply as I read it was a good compliment to the Rpi based streamers. 

I've got a message out to the folks at Allo, and we'll see what they recommend. Hopefully I will hear back by tomorrow. 

Thanks again,

David