I bought a Mi Box S a little while ago and it seems that I have audio issues in anything I use with it. Every couple of minutes there will be a crackle and it skips a bit of audio. This is annoying in itself but sometimes it happens during important dialog. I was thinking it was just an issue with the Mi Boxes but I don't see a lot of people complaining about it (and I know people would if it was common). Do I just have a faulty unit?
I was considering replacing it with the Homatics but they're out of stock. If it's just my unit, I could consider replacing it with another Mi Box but I don't want the issue to repeat itself.
(Just to be clear, this happens with Netflix, Prime, VLC, Spotify, Youtube et al).
Update: After a bit new fiddling, a new TV, bringing the old TV back, it appears it was a problem with the particular HDMI port I was using. I hadn't destroyed the cable so it gets a reprieve.
I found that the newer DD+ streams didn't play nice with my old Integra receiver and it caused that issue, it would manifest as a pop or a squeak. I expect it was done kind of processing buffer underrun or something due to overly compressed streams on Netflix/etc.
I still hear artifacts sometimes on problematic shows/movies with the Denon I'm using now but they are not intrusive and don't really cause problems.
It wasn't related to the mibox tho - same thing would happen using my PC as a source