I have had my first “noob” experience with the Bifrost 2. I’m sharing A) so you can all have a little chuckle at my expense, and B) The off chance there is another new owner who has a the same experience and also did not RTFM, and more importantly - the FAQ…
I was like what’s going on? Why is there a relay clicking when I switch from for example, YouTube to Spotify or, even inside of Foobar when selecting a different album or just tracks with different sampling rates. I thought it was maybe because I have both Unison USB and Optical connected so that I can A/B between, nope still does it even with USB disconnected (I recalled reading that the USB only played when a source was detected so assumed maybe that the Bifrost was “hunting” inputs to see who was live or not) OK - now I’m weirded out a bit ( I wont go into how I totally broke the chain down to its most basic needed connections bypassing all switchers, rebooting the PC, power cycling all gear etc etc.)
Finally I was getting ready to post a question here but remembered Google can be a friend and damnit if Google girl did not land me on the Bifrost 2 Manual and FAQ where it is stating
"Hey, this thing clicks between songs/between
inputs/etc! Yes, it does.
Care to explain why, smartass?
Sure. That’s the muting relay engaging when
there’s no input. Many computer…"
The moral of the story and reason for this mini novel is… RTFM noob!