AIR 3 Beta for Mac

[Hifi_swlon]

Is the current 'official' Mac beta the same one that was released a while ago, or a new one?

Yes, I'm going to install it.....

[Hifi_swlon]

So now I have a bit of a quandary

I thought I would give the RC Beta 3 on Mac a go, after all, when I bought my Dev 200 I had wanted to use AiR and keep it all simple. As we know, thus far AiR has been a nightmare for most, but hey ho, I gave it a go.

Firstly, with a straight Ethernet connection, it worked through a few tracks and I thought this pretty good, but not up to the SQ of my recent microRendu setup. What the heck I thought, I will switch the network feed that my MR was receiving, which is a pair of TP Link 110 optic fibre isolators, with the unit nearest the MR receiving power from one of the rails of my JS-2. Wow, this elevated the SQ in AiR3 to a level I had not heard before from AiR.

I thought I would stress this a little, so my iMac, which stores my music, runs Roon server and HQP, with a selection of various format tracks all up sampled by HQP to 192kHz. Set HQP to output to Devialet AIR, and I ran for a good hour or so without a hitch. Wonderful sound, no glitches, nothing.

I will persist with this for a few more sessions after my work day, but already the thoughts in my head, have Devialet finally cracked this!?!

AllenB in your network isolation, are the tp links 100 base or gigabit? How easy was it to setup? Is there still a noticeable improvement without powering the final tplink with the JS-2? I've been thinking of trying this for a while.

I'm assuming you're using the js-2 with the rendu as well? So in the optimal config for both - would you say AIR is better or equal or worse than the rendu?

[PhilP]

Has anyone else noticed an improvement in wi-fi signal strength since installing AIR 3 for Mac ?

I was previously getting around -48 dBm fairly consistently but just checked and now have between -39 and -41 which is a huge improvement and very strange.  I haven't changed anything else in my system/network.

[Nightmare]

Is the current 'official' Mac beta the same one that was released a while ago, or a new one?

No one knows, exept Devialet, I gues.
As they are both named 3.0.

The only difference that is obvious is 11,3MB vs 11,6MB

It should be a newer one after 3 months. But who knows...

[Cylob]

Is the current 'official' Mac beta the same one that was released a while ago, or a new one?

No one knows, exept Devialet, I gues.
As they are both named 3.0.

The only difference that is obvious is 11,3MB vs 11,6MB

It should be a newer one after 3 months. But who knows...

They've called it release canditate, so would expect it to be different yeah.

[Rufus McDufus]

They really should version the betas fully so it's clear.

[canyelles]

The beta version still had the occasional short drop out (but nothing worse than that).

It would good to know whether or not this has been fixed - I am sadly away from my Dev for the next 5 weeks so cannot check it myself

[Hifi_swlon]

Is the current 'official' Mac beta the same one that was released a while ago, or a new one?

No one knows, exept Devialet, I gues.

You guys usually do your file comparison and disk level investigation magic for us......

[Celts88]

Has anyone else noticed an improvement in wi-fi signal strength since installing AIR 3 for Mac ?  

I was previously getting around -48 dBm fairly consistently but just checked and now have between -39 and -41 which is a huge improvement and very strange.  I haven't changed anything else in my system/network.

I went from -46dBm to -48dBm, not much of a difference, but going in the wrong direction.

I very seldom have White Noise, but consistently AIR just stops. I have to click on the Devialet symbol (that has went grey instead of black) and has dropped of the WiFi (I have D-Premiers so only have WiFi option).

AIR3 sounds great, but it keeps stopping after 20 -30 minutes (or thereabouts) and when clicking on it again only 1 in 50 starts again. What a pain in the %^#@ as it sounds really good when working.

[CptHaddock]

Wow - the release candidate is actually working problem free for me over Ethernet. 45+ minutes, no drop outs, no app lockup no issues or problems to report. My WiFi signal strength also seems to have improved from -48 to -44.

I'll look forward to comparing Ethernet, WiFi and my Aries mini over the coming week, but if things continue this way I'll be far more inclined to consider springing for the upgrade.

What a nice start to the weekend!