13-Feb-2017, 23:25
(This post was last modified: 13-Feb-2017, 23:26 by thumb5.
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I think you're both on the right track, baddog and octaviars: touch wood, I haven't had any sign of trouble from AIR (over Ethernet) since the first couple of days of using it with Roon. Less surprisingly, USB has also been working fine.
It's the first opportunity I've had to compare the sound quality of the USB input against AIR. Without being too obsessive about it, they both sound very good to me and I'd find it hard to differentiate between them.
From a practical point of view, I prefer the way the Roon volume control works with AIR. On the other hand with USB, it seems that from Roon you can only turn the volume down from the level set by the Devialet volume control -- in fact I've ended up configuring USB as a fixed-volume zone in Roon. I can understand why it works like that, but it slightly irritates me that it's not as flexible as AIR.
It's the first opportunity I've had to compare the sound quality of the USB input against AIR. Without being too obsessive about it, they both sound very good to me and I'd find it hard to differentiate between them.
From a practical point of view, I prefer the way the Roon volume control works with AIR. On the other hand with USB, it seems that from Roon you can only turn the volume down from the level set by the Devialet volume control -- in fact I've ended up configuring USB as a fixed-volume zone in Roon. I can understand why it works like that, but it slightly irritates me that it's not as flexible as AIR.
Roon (Mac Mini), Wilson Benesch Full Circle, Expert 1000 Pro CI, Kaiser Chiara
Warwickshire, UK
