A strange “snap“ or “popping” sound keeps interrupting our music

Mainly the right channel.  And not consistent.  I’ve wondered if the weather has an impact.

pS, I will try your home remedy this evening, and thank you.

Hook your TV or some other analog source up (or swap out DACs if you have a half dozen of them laying around like some of us do) to get your DAC out of the path and see if the problem goes away.

Jerry

I had popping noise immediately when I had my new DAC. All things being the same, one would assume it was the dac's fault. But I switched to a better USB cable and the popping noise was gone. 

For clarification, the popping noise with the usb cable didn't have popping noise with a previous DAC.