You are quite welcome, I wish I had a better answer for you.
If this is happening only on MQA tracks (at the moment) this wouldn't surprise me, there seems to be a difficulty there for a bunch of devices. Speculation is that the changeover to all FLAC is creating problems for some devices, and by that, I mean source and Dongle, or DAPs for that matter. I think every manufacturer is kind of stuck in the MQA Switch Further (Yes that's an Insidious reference).
Without speaking ill, if Tidal would just stop sending MQA-encoded material this wouldn't happen, but it is what it is until they are done.
I will try to research it further. Right now my Roon wont even play an MQA track it *** right thru it, lol
Cheers!!
iPhone 15 Pro - Tidal - Go Bar = white noise at the start of PCM after having played MQA.
Yes doing away completely with MQA would fix it because it is the swap from MQA to FLAC that causes the problem which frankly makes me think the problem is with the Go Bar getting caught off guard at the swap of file types but that may be wildly inaccurate.
Regardless, even if the problem is with the Go Bar, it will sort itself out when Tidal eventually gets rid of MQA. I don't see that happening any time soon, I have suggested playlists littered with MQA tracks. If they want to get rid of it why not at least not use those files, make suggested mixes with FLAC only.
Anyway ... thanks, I will update if something sorts itself out sooner than later.