Mac AIR v MiND 180 v Auralic ARIES v totaldac d1 server

[PhilP]

Hi Thierry,

I enjoy your posts and find them very thought provoking.

- if you get different results when changing the player (iTunes/Jriver/Audivarna/Pure Music/ Amarra) then the data in the Devialet buffer are not the same depending of the player (electrical interferences are supposed to be the same, as cables, hardware, etc. are the same).

Perhaps these software players are changing the signal before it is fed into AIR which as Antoine says is acting as a virtual sound card.

As I've said elsewhere, it's not clear to me what a player like Audirvana+ is really doing when it is functioning with AIR. I would have expected that the AIR developers would have taken every opportunity to optimise performance in a similar fashion to Audirvana. So I'm not sure what Audirvana really adds?

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Confused - yes, I agree, a bit off topic. I suppose the main point of my post was to say that whatever the sound quality of AIR depends on, I doubt that the quality of any clock(s) in the computer has any bearing on it.

particularly when using AIR WiFi...