Ethernet streaming and occasional white noise on Windows

[Dr Tone]

As long as i`m playing 44/16 files and set the iTunes volume slider to 100%, there is no loss with DirectSound. Even the windows mixer slider setting  doesn`t matter in this case, because the Devialet driver maps the volume slider directly to the voume setting of the Devialet itself and is therefor lossless. So as long as the Devialet driver sampling rate setting matches the iTunes output setting and the audio file itself, even DirectSound will provide a bit perfect solution.

Ok more specifically, downsampling to 16/44 isn't a solution that the rest of us will accept.

Oh, yes that is the down side of this scenario, if i would like to play a file with a higher resolution, lets say 96/24 i would have first to change the driver setting and the iTunes playback setting also to 96/24 to have a bit perfect transmission. Another option would be, to let the setting this high, but in this case all lower resolution files would be upsampled by iTunes and this is maybe not as good as if the Devialet itself does the upsampling.

The rest of us are tired of testing this crap.  Please test WASAPI disable and AIR driver set to 24/192 and see how that works out for you.

Unfortunately this would require software decoding of DSD prior but we would all be interested in your results, as it could be years before Devialet releases a fix.