Have you had streaming music clip out with chord Dave?

Does the music cut out or is it just the display on the DAVE that goes blank without interrupting streaming? Not clear from your post.
If you get the music interrupted then try rebooting the streamer. Power off, unplug, wait a bit, connect power and boot it up. If it doesn’t help, keep streamer on and reboot the dac then the mscaler.

My bad, I wasn’t very clear. It’s the music that loses time, beats, a word and a half.

it just recently started after swapping my DAC. The streamer has changed but it was doing it with the previous streamer as well. I’ve rebooted everything multiple times to include the router, which is hard wired to the streamer. It only happens with streaming no other source. Very frustrating when deep into listening to a passage and then it’s as if someone presses the mute button on and off.  Help

1. Are you using proper digital cables between mscaler and DAVE? These are supposed to be 75ohm Digital BNC. Not regular RCA interconnects with BNC adapters.
2. Do you have upsampling enabled in the streamer? If so, disable that option.
3. what interface is used to connect streamer to mscaler? Is it USB? Is the USB cable working properly? Have you tried another USB?

4. Have you tried streamer to DAVE direct without mscaler in the setup? Does the issue persist without the mscaler in your system?

please list streamer make and model, usb cable make and model, digital cables make/model, streamer settings and if you use Roon or not.
Also list Ethernet cable and setup - speed, switches, etc

Great questions.

streamer= Lumin U2 feeding M Scaler with Audioquest

diamond USB. M Scaler to Dave via Nordost Valhalla XLR

interconnects. The change that happened was switching out

Chord Hugo TT2 for the Dave and a Bluenode 2 for the

Lumin U2. Th

The other change was i was using optical from the 

node to the M Scaler and now USB.  No issues 

ever with tge node and optical.