Used Topping D10s - keeps losing the USB - connection and reverts to laptop speakers

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Just bought a 2nd-hand, Used Topping D10s.

the device keeps losing the USB connection to the laptop and the laptop then reverts to it's internal speakers output.

Beech beech main hotha hai...this doesn't happen with my apple DAC dongle for example.

How to fix it?

Thanks!
 
Just bought a 2nd-hand, Used Topping D10s.

the device keeps losing the USB connection to the laptop and the laptop then reverts to it's internal speakers output.

Beech beech main hotha hai...this doesn't happen with my apple DAC dongle for example.

How to fix it?

Thanks!

Check the usb cable. This could be the most likely problem.
Check the usb port. Using a torch see if the terminal inside are bent. Can you open the dac. It is not difficult. The USB B port is very sturdy. But it is possible that the terminals at the soldered point on the board has come off, especially if the first owner had the habit of frequently removing the cable. If you open the dac, you should be able to see that.
Are you using Windows? It could be a driver problem too.
 
Stupid question, have you tried a different usb cable?
havent

ubuntu is the operating system

in the sound settings, the output device keeps changing from internal speakers to digital Topping D10s, and back again when this flip flop happens, the USB is NOT - DERECOGNIZED. i.e it still appears in the drop down menu as DIGITAL out.

which is mysterious -- so what is making this flip flop happen?
 
This is a good dac. You can open it up and do some opamp rolling.
See this article on how to open it
 
havent

ubuntu is the operating system

in the sound settings, the output device keeps changing from internal speakers to digital Topping D10s, and back again when this flip flop happens, the USB is NOT - DERECOGNIZED. i.e it still appears in the drop down menu as DIGITAL out.

which is mysterious -- so what is making this flip flop happen?
Then it is not a driver problem. Can you do the following. Login to your ubuntu and launch the terminal program.
On the shell prompt, execute the following command

journalctl -fl

Now the above command will show you all the system error as it happens. Press the ENTER key twice so that you know any new line that comes.

Start playing music.
When the output device changes to speaker, there surely will be one or two lines that will suddenly appear. Please cut paste those lines and post it here.

EDIT:
Once you are through with debugging, Pressing control-C will come out of the journalctl program.
 
Another point

Switching of the output is not done by the OS. It is done by the Music Player you are using or the client (in your case it is the gnome sound setting client). Which Music player are you using for playing the audio.

You can install strawberry and select a fixed output device and play music through strawberry and see if the music suddenly stops
add-apt-repository ppa:jonaski/strawberry
sudo apt update
sudo apt install strawberry
 
Thanks sir..will try tomorrow and report back
Once you are through with this, I will ask you to install mpd and cantata on your ubuntu. mpd gives the lowest latency music playback, but configuration is a bit advanced. mpd will be able to fully exploit the good dac you have. To do the configuration you will have to run one or two commands which I will give later.
All the best.
 
ep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a03440 trb-start 0000000404a03450 trb-end 0000000404a03450 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=152a, idProduct=8750, bcdDevice= 1.04
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=0
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: Product: D10s
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Topping
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: 1:3 : unsupported format bits 0x100000000
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26671]: checking bus 1, device 8: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26671]: bus: 1, device: 8 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd-udevd[26657]: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa restore 1' failed with exit code 99.
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26677]: checking bus 1, device 8: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26677]: bus: 1, device: 8 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Successfully made thread 26678 of process 1272 owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Sep 12 10:13:51 rw-ThinkPad-T560 dbus-daemon[1317]: [session uid=1000 pid=1317] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Tracker1' unit='tracker-store.service' requested by ':1.74' (uid=1000 pid=1955 comm="/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-miner-fs " label="unconfined")
Sep 12 10:13:51 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd[1259]: Starting Tracker metadata database store and lookup manager...
Sep 12 10:13:51 rw-ThinkPad-T560 dbus-daemon[1317]: [session uid=1000 pid=1317] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Tracker1'
Sep 12 10:13:51 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd[1259]: Started Tracker metadata database store and lookup manager.
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 pulseaudio[1272]: W: [alsa-sink-USB Audio] alsa-util.c: Got POLLNVAL from ALSA
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 8
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a036f0 trb-start 0000000404a03700 trb-end 0000000404a03700 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a03700 trb-start 0000000404a03710 trb-end 0000000404a03710 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 gsd-media-keys[1816]: Unable to get default sink
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=152a, idProduct=8750, bcdDevice= 1.04
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=0
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: Product: D10s
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Topping
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: 1:3 : unsupported format bits 0x100000000
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26705]: checking bus 1, device 9: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26705]: bus: 1, device: 9 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd-udevd[26698]: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa restore 1' failed with exit code 99.
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26710]: checking bus 1, device 9: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26710]: bus: 1, device: 9 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Successfully made thread 26712 of process 1272 owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Sep 12 10:13:53 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Sep 12 10:13:55 rw-ThinkPad-T560 dbus-daemon[1317]: [session uid=1000 pid=1317] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract' unit='tracker-extract.service' requested by ':1.74' (uid=1000 pid=1955 comm="/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-miner-fs " label="unconfined")
Sep 12 10:13:55 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd[1259]: Starting Tracker metadata extractor...
Sep 12 10:13:55 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Succeeded.
Sep 12 10:13:55 rw-ThinkPad-T560 dbus-daemon[1317]: [session uid=1000 pid=1317] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract'
Sep 12 10:13:55 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd[1259]: Started Tracker metadata extractor.
Sep 12 10:14:06 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd[1259]: tracker-extract.service: Succeeded.
Sep 12 10:14:07 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 9
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=152a, idProduct=8750, bcdDevice= 1.04
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=0
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: Product: D10s
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Topping
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: 1:3 : unsupported format bits 0x100000000
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26760]: checking bus 1, device 10: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26760]: bus: 1, device: 10 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd-udevd[26753]: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa restore 1' failed with exit code 99.
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26766]: checking bus 1, device 10: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26766]: bus: 1, device: 10 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Successfully made thread 26767 of process 1272 owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Sep 12 10:14:08 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 10
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a04e50 trb-start 0000000404a04e60 trb-end 0000000404a04e60 seg-start 0000000404a04000 seg-end 0000000404a04ff0
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 pulseaudio[1272]: W: [alsa-sink-USB Audio] alsa-util.c: Got POLLNVAL from ALSA
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 gsd-media-keys[1816]: Unable to get default sink
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=152a, idProduct=8750, bcdDevice= 1.04
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=0
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: Product: D10s
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Topping
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: 1:3 : unsupported format bits 0x100000000
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26774]: checking bus 1, device 11: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26774]: bus: 1, device: 11 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd-udevd[26771]: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa restore 1' failed with exit code 99.
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26785]: checking bus 1, device 11: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:14:14 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26785]: bus: 1, device: 11 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:14:15 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Sep 12 10:14:15 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Successfully made thread 26786 of process 1272 owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Sep 12 10:14:15 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Sep 12 10:14:26 rw-ThinkPad-T560 tracker-store[26688]: OK
Sep 12 10:14:26 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd[1259]: tracker-store.service: Succeeded.
 
Sep 12 10:15:41 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: mce: CPU2: Core temperature/speed normal
Sep 12 10:15:41 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: mce: CPU1: Package temperature/speed normal
Sep 12 10:15:41 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: mce: CPU3: Package temperature/speed normal
Sep 12 10:15:41 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: mce: CPU2: Package temperature/speed normal
Sep 12 10:15:41 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: mce: CPU0: Package temperature/speed normal
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 pulseaudio[1272]: W: [alsa-sink-USB Audio] alsa-util.c: Got POLLNVAL from ALSA
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 12
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a037b0 trb-start 0000000404a037c0 trb-end 0000000404a037c0 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a037c0 trb-start 0000000404a037d0 trb-end 0000000404a037d0 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 gsd-media-keys[1816]: Unable to get default sink
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=152a, idProduct=8750, bcdDevice= 1.04
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=0
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: Product: D10s
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Topping
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: 1:3 : unsupported format bits 0x100000000
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26835]: checking bus 1, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:16:12 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26835]: bus: 1, device: 13 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:16:13 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd-udevd[26828]: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa restore 1' failed with exit code 99.
Sep 12 10:16:13 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26841]: checking bus 1, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:16:13 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26841]: bus: 1, device: 13 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:16:13 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Sep 12 10:16:13 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Successfully made thread 26842 of process 1272 owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Sep 12 10:16:13 rw-ThinkPad-T560 rtkit-daemon[1283]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
 
THE ABOVE TWO LOG DUMPS ARE WHEN THE TOPPING WAS CONNECTED VIA USB TO THE UBUNTU LAPTOP.

There is some connection and disconnection that happens automatically and quite randomly between the Topping DAC and the Ubuntu laptop.

WHEN I TOOK OUT THE USB : THE LOG

Sep 12 10:16:54 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 13
Sep 12 10:16:54 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
Sep 12 10:17:01 rw-ThinkPad-T560 CRON[26874]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Sep 12 10:17:01 rw-ThinkPad-T560 CRON[26875]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Sep 12 10:17:01 rw-ThinkPad-T560 CRON[26874]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
 
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: 1:3 : unsupported format bits 0x100000000
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26671]: checking bus 1, device 8: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26671]: bus: 1, device: 8 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 systemd-udevd[26657]: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa restore 1' failed with exit code 99.
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26677]: checking bus 1, device 8: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 mtp-probe[26677]: bus: 1, device: 8 was not an MTP device
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 pulseaudio[1272]: W: [alsa-sink-USB Audio] alsa-util.c: Got POLLNVAL from ALSA
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 8
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a036f0 trb-start 0000000404a03700 trb-end 0000000404a03700 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a03700 trb-start 0000000404a03710 trb-end 0000000404a03710 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 gsd-media-keys[1816]: Unable to get default sink

What is your kernel version? Let me know the output of
uname -r

1. There is a driver problem -
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: 1:3 : unsupported format bits 0x100000000

2. There is clearly a usb disconnect
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 8
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a036f0 trb-start 0000000404a03700 trb-end 0000000404a03700 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a03700 trb-start 0000000404a03710 trb-end 0000000404a03710 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 gsd-media-keys[1816]: Unable to get default sink
 
root@rw-ThinkPad-T560:/home/rw# sudo apt install strawberry
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
strawberry : Depends: libqt5concurrent5 (>= 5.6.0~rc) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.2) but it is not installable or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5network5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5sql5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5x11extras5 (>= 5.7.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5sql5-sqlite but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@rw-ThinkPad-T560:/home/rw#
Another point

Switching of the output is not done by the OS. It is done by the Music Player you are using or the client (in your case it is the gnome sound setting client). Which Music player are you using for playing the audio.

You can install strawberry and select a fixed output device and play music through strawberry and see if the music suddenly stops
 
What is your kernel version? Let me know the output of
uname -r

1. There is a driver problem -
Sep 12 10:13:42 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: 1:3 : unsupported format bits 0x100000000

2. There is clearly a usb disconnect
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 8
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a036f0 trb-start 0000000404a03700 trb-end 0000000404a03700 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Looking for event-dma 0000000404a03700 trb-start 0000000404a03710 trb-end 0000000404a03710 seg-start 0000000404a03000 seg-end 0000000404a03ff0
Sep 12 10:13:52 rw-ThinkPad-T560 gsd-media-keys[1816]: Unable to get default sink
rw@rw-ThinkPad-T560:~$ uname -r
5.3.0-64-generic
 
Another thing is that you are using pulseaudio. Pulseaudio is like the dreaded window's mixer. It is not dealing properly with POLLNVAL. The alsa driver is using poll system call and it is failing with POLLNVAL, indicating the file descriptor got closed. Is the DAC getting sufficient power?

From the man page of poll(2)
$ man poll

POLLHUP
Hang up (only returned in revents; ignored in events). Note that when reading from a channel such as a pipe or a stream socket, this
event merely indicates that the peer closed its end of the channel. Subsequent reads from the channel will return 0 (end of file) only
after all outstanding data in the channel has been consumed.

POLLNVAL
Invalid request: fd not open (only returned in revents; ignored in events).
 
Nice command line work Sir! this is where I find myself all at sea in Ubuntu.

So, I also think that its not getting enough power, so I connected it to my other thinkpad T530 with a YELLOW USB powered USB connector.
It was disconnecting there as well.

rw@rw-ThinkPad-T560:~$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="19.10 (Eoan Ermine)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 19.10"
 
root@rw-ThinkPad-T560:/home/rw# sudo apt install strawberry
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
strawberry : Depends: libqt5concurrent5 (>= 5.6.0~rc) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.2) but it is not installable or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5network5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5sql5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5x11extras5 (>= 5.7.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5sql5-sqlite but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@rw-ThinkPad-T560:/home/rw#

Your OS has not been updated for a long time it seems. I will wait for the output of the file /etc/os-release and let you know the next course of action.
 
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