The cable on my Havi B3P1 is rapidly going down hill. I have put some feelers out trying to find someone (in Canada) that could do a detachable conversion for a reasonable price, but so far no joy. So that leads to wonder if I should just attempt to try it myself. I do know how to use an iron...

I'm trying to use a Shanling M2S as a DAC on my laptops. One is a Windows 10 system, the other is a dual boot Win7/DAPhile. In all cases while I'm listening, after about 10 minutes the music will start to making random ticking noises similar to vinyl clicks. I've tried 2 different cables (stock...