Roon RAAT and "An audio file is loading slowly"

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I'm running a direct ethernet connection between Roon on a Nucleus+ and my Devialet which totally isolates traffic between Roon and the Devialet from traffic between Roon and the network. You can't run Roon without a network connection. This puts nothing between Roon and the Devialet apart from a single ethernet cable. It's as close to completely isolating the Devialet as I know how to get.

I think the problem is still occurring but infrequently and at a mild level, ie no actual dropouts with silence but occasional (maybe once or twice a day) fraction of a second mild drops in volume.

At a guess I'd say the problem has something to do with buffering and/or error correction of the RAAT stream and that network connections and devices in the path can exacerbate it but I think there is a issue in how the Devialet controls the buffer and streaming process and that it's a software rather than a hardware problem.

I too am getting the very infrequent fraction-of-a second skip and its only happened twice so far. By the way, I am now running the Nucleus-to-network via USB3-ethernet adapter after swapping out the Apple's USB2 adapter so the Nucleus to Network is now Gigabit. Am still watching !