[PROBLEM] Initial stuttering when playing back high resolution files

[Tim Curtis]

The symptoms suggest something external to moOde software or RaspiOS since none of dev's can reproduce the issue using the supplied test files on either the exact same Audiophonics ES9038 DAC (I2S) as the OP, other I2S DAC's or USB DAC's.

If there were some sort of issue with audio glitches in the Linux kernel USB audio driver it would show up on our end in testing and attempts to reproduce the issue.