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I recently bought a Dragonfly Black USB DAC, and was eager to use it for playing music from my Droid Turbo 2 phone using CloudPlayer, which streams full quality music from Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed with the results. The music plays through the DAC, but there are a lot of digital artifacts and distortion. There's a fair number of pops, and digital distortion as if the song had been digitally stretched. Here's some information I've gathered. First, the distortion doesn't occur if listening directly through the headphone jack, or the phone's internal speakers. Second, I tried playing the files after downloading them to my phone's storage. I played them both on CloudPlayer and Foobar2000. This seemed to improve it a bit, but the distortion was still present. It seems most pronounced in 24-bit and higher tracks. (48k, 88k, 96k). My three suspects are: The USB cable. I didn't get the Dragontail, instead I went cheap and got a 'UGreen' cable (this seems unlikely) The port. My port has been giving me trouble for awhile: my charger routinely falls out, or disconnects itself. I'm wondering if it's not totally connected. (this seems somewhat unlikely) The phone itself. It's old, and since higher resolution files seem to cause more trouble, I'm assuming that something's either clogging up the memory, or the processor. (this seems the most likely, though it doesn't explain why I don't get any distortion when using the headphone jack directly). Does anyone have any experience with this setup or something similar? Any advice?