02-Sep-2014, 22:42
(02-Sep-2014, 22:30)GuillaumeB Wrote: Well if you think about it AIR is an app sitting on someone else's computer... and which depends on that person's music player software of choice. There are lots of variables, hence the differences in SQ between A+, iTunes, Mac etc, not to mention power supplies and operating systems. Some are getting white noise and dropouts, others not.
The d1 server on the other hand is a perfectly optimised "single purpose" computer/unit where all the elements (software and hardware) are controlled and optimised by totaldac. Only sound quality is important.
Guillaume
Indeed so, but not to forget one half of AIR is inside the Devialet itself, that is a memory buffer, the electronics for asynchronous clocking etc. The point being the that the Totaldac is effectively by passing everything up to the Devialet's DAC, and quite possibly doing it rather well?
