I've spent a lot of time troubleshooting this popping today and did a little research. I didn't get it fixed but I did find out what is not causing it.

First, I tried different ground points and power feed points, different power supplies. No change. I still got the pop at the start and end of the sound file. Conclusion; No power or ground issues.

Two, I bypassed the CF3 completely and and ran a cable directly from the EZB to the amp (which then go directly to the speakers). No change. I still got the pop at the start and end of the sound file. Conclusion; CF Sound system, booster, wiring are not the cause.

Then, Started up the EZB's web interface (I'm running in client mode) and went into the diagnosis section. I tried playing the built in sounds and they sounded beautiful. No popping at all. Conclusion; Sound coming from the EZB is clean. EZB is not the issue.

That's where I'm at now. This leaves me with the WiFi connection, my computer, the sound files and ARC.

I did a little research to see if there is anything on something like this. I read a few posts like this: "This is a fairly common problem caused by cuts being placed at points that aren't exactly zero crossing points in the waveform. The solution is to add a short, three to four frames, 0dB fade at the beginning and end of each clip."

I don't know if this is the same issue I'm seeing but it's my next step. More to follow.

Can you share some of your sound files with me? I will take a look.

Thanks so much DJ. Your my hero. I'll attached a zip file with three sound files. Sample_Voice_Files.zip

There's a lot of noise on the floor of the audio - i suspect from sampling. This can be altered with audicity, by selecting parts of the audio where it's just a floor and silencing it. As for the click at the start, there was a lengthy start delay of "silence" which is the noisy floor. So i removed the silence at the beginning and used a fade-in as well so the voice isn't abrupt.

try this: BeAdvised-B9NeverDonedj2.zip

Thanks DJ, Thanks for the help. I took a look at your edit in Audicity. I see exactly what your talking about. This is really more help then you know. I'll plug it in tomorrow to see if it works.

excellent - there's a new version of ARC tomorrow as well which includes a few audio performance enhancements. I don't see how they could help with the click, but they will lower cpu usage a few points while playing audio and the audio play should be quicker and more responsive.

Thanks Dj for the audio update. In the Spring Madame Ninndo will be coming out to the farm store, with some audio updates. These enhancements should also help.

Ron R

Outstanding DJ. Proformance enhancement is always a good thing. I'm looking forward to getting home tonight and seeing if this sound file edit fixes this click problem. I have high hopes that this is going to work. I'm not looking forward to editing every sound file though. However if that's what it takes. .......

Hopefully the update will be released also so I can try that out also. I'm going to wait to see the results of the file edit first before I update. Just to keep the testing environment unchanged.