25-Mar-2015, 22:03
Gents (and ladies)
This may be a case of the gods having a laugh at the hapless humans below; this am I was at home for a few hours (waiting for our gas meter to be exchanged, if you must know) and I specifically used the AIR connection and WiFi. After about 45 minutes of streaming 16/44.1 CD rips to AIFF (my usual standard), I heard a bit of crackling out of one speaker. It was not very loud, and it sounded almost as if a connection was making contact intermittently. It was a dry, fairly soft sound; not fuzzy or long in duration.
It happened briefly, and then stopped and did not return. I had been swapping speaker cables, so wondered if I had left something loose, but everything was secure. I also started and stopped the music quite a few times. Is this the white noise we're dealing with here?
I typically stream to an airport express and use an optical cable to the D120. When I started trying the AIR connection more consistently in the last week or so, in testing for the noise, I mostly used the AIR ethernet, as my router is connected to the APEx and the D120 with ethernet cable. This morning I was on AIR WiFi consistently. Just using iTunes and Mavericks on an 3.2 Ghz i5 iMac.
Have I possibly joined the white noise club? Is this what we call 'ironic'?
This may be a case of the gods having a laugh at the hapless humans below; this am I was at home for a few hours (waiting for our gas meter to be exchanged, if you must know) and I specifically used the AIR connection and WiFi. After about 45 minutes of streaming 16/44.1 CD rips to AIFF (my usual standard), I heard a bit of crackling out of one speaker. It was not very loud, and it sounded almost as if a connection was making contact intermittently. It was a dry, fairly soft sound; not fuzzy or long in duration.
It happened briefly, and then stopped and did not return. I had been swapping speaker cables, so wondered if I had left something loose, but everything was secure. I also started and stopped the music quite a few times. Is this the white noise we're dealing with here?
I typically stream to an airport express and use an optical cable to the D120. When I started trying the AIR connection more consistently in the last week or so, in testing for the noise, I mostly used the AIR ethernet, as my router is connected to the APEx and the D120 with ethernet cable. This morning I was on AIR WiFi consistently. Just using iTunes and Mavericks on an 3.2 Ghz i5 iMac.
Have I possibly joined the white noise club? Is this what we call 'ironic'?
Damon
Powernode, NAD M32, Cambridge CD transport, Analysis Plus, Nordost, iFi Nova, CSS Criton 1TDX, KEF C62
Vancouver, Canada
