22-Nov-2015, 20:39
(22-Nov-2015, 15:02)Antoine Wrote: Nothing new there. AiR ethernet is better than USB using plain, 'unoptimized' off the shelf computer hardware. One can "easily" surpass AIR though using USB.+1
It might be a world unknown to many but there's many effective hard- and software products available to optimize both PC's or Mac's (more options for the PC platform) with which one can match and surpass the results of an off the shelf commercial solution like Aurender. Don't forget that these devices are also computers, there's no magic inside them, they're often slimmed down regular hardware coming from the same system architecture as PC's although nowadays you see many manufacturers are designing their own motherboards and of course power supplies. They're still following the same system architecture design though.
Amp: Devialet 200 // Renderer: Streacom FC-5 Alpha based audio pc with HDPlex 100W LPS - HDPlex 250W ATX UPS - PPA PCIe USB V2 - Roon Labs core - JPlay - Fidelizer Audio Pro // Speakers: Kharma 3.2 CE black label upgrade // Active sub: Eton Hexacone 10 '' with Hypex DS 4.0 // Cables: Siltech Explorer 180 L - Acoustic Revive Powermax 10000 + IeGo 8055 - Furutech FP-3TS20 + IeGo 8055 - Acoustic Revive USB 1.OPLS - Belden cat.7 1885 ENH + Telegartner MFP8