Air 3.0.4 Officially Released

[Hifi_swlon]

You are a brave man  

Thanks for your kind choice of words Womaz. I was expecting something far worse. Not least from myself!

AIR's been feverishly worked on for two years by their top people. What's the worst that could happen?!

Oh. Yeah. Mmmmmmm

[Soniclife]

Make sure you have a backup of this firmware, and air version, and then hope apple don't break things for you.

P.S. It took me about two weeks to trust it when they fixed it on Windows, but it's been really stable since.

[Dannythered]

You are a brave man  

Thanks for your kind choice of words Womaz. I was expecting something far worse. Not least from myself!

AIR's been feverishly worked on for two years by their top people. What's the worst that could happen?!

Oh. Yeah.  Mmmmmmm

Have you got AIR working with Dirac?

[GuillaumeB]

my saga is kind of over.

Yeah, right! 

Guillaume

[octaviars]

Well, it's all up for sale!

48 hours is good enough for me, and my partner is more than pleased to hear we'll be going back to just a slab on the wall (with some boxing for the cables).

It's been a long wait, and I'm not sure whether it's something I've done here, or Devialet have actually finally fixed it, but whatever the reason it works for PCM including high-res. Ok, they probably have fixed it but I just find it so hard to believe - I can't tell you how many times I checked Roon and the Dev display to make sure it hadn't somehow changed input from Ethernet!

Having listened much of the weekend I think the treble is smoother and less fatiguing with the rendu setup, whereas the bass and imaging feels better with AIR. But overall I can happily live with AIR because it means my saga is kind of over.

Now, it had better not stop working and they'd better not break it!! (Or dump it and make me buy a Dialogue   )

Call me crazy, but it just feels like selling the streaming stuff (that incidentally I never wanted to buy in the first place, or have in the lounge) gives me some sort of closure. And if I'm buying it all back again in a months time I'll laugh/cry with you all.  

How do you compare AIR and microRendu soundwise? 

I'm really happy with Roon and AIR and it has worked ok since 3.0.1 came out.

[Hifi_swlon]

How do you compare AIR and microRendu soundwise? 

That's a tricky one, they're very similar as you'd expect I suppose.
When I first switched back to AIR I felt it was clearly better - more energetic perhaps and better bass. And by clearly I still mean subtle.
After a weekend, I think the AIR sound may be slightly more fatiguing in the treble - maybe the energetic aspect isn't so good longer term. I still feel bass and soundstage is slightly better for some reason. It's all very subjective.

The upshot is I'm happy to live with it. I might try a linear on my switch or a lan isolator and see what happens (if anything). Here we go, more tinkering gadgets......

Haven't tried Dirac yet as I don't have a license. I'm still undecided whether to go there, or try and get filters into Roon just in case I end up changing my mind!

And, er, thanks Guillaume!

[sven911]

How do you compare AIR and microRendu soundwise? 

That's a tricky one, they're very similar as you'd expect I suppose.
When I first switched back to AIR I felt it was clearly better - more energetic perhaps and better bass. And by clearly I still mean subtle.
After a weekend, I think the AIR sound may be slightly more fatiguing in the treble - maybe the energetic aspect isn't so good longer term. I still feel bass and soundstage is slightly better for some reason. It's all very subjective.

The upshot is I'm happy to live with it. I might try a linear on my switch or a lan isolator and see what happens (if anything). Here we go, more tinkering gadgets......

Haven't tried Dirac yet as I don't have a license. I'm still undecided whether to go there, or try and get filters into Roon just in case I end up changing my mind!  

And, er, thanks Guillaume!      

I use an iFi ipower on the switch, only Eur 50.

[Gerronwithit]

Well, with my usual care and attention I downloaded and updated my MacBook Air with Air. And..... absolutely nothing in terms of glitches. Running Audirvana 3.0.2 and playing MQA Masters from Tidal. All well. I was about to say if I upsample to 24 / 192 kHz that doing anything on the MacBook soon provides horrible distortion but just noticed am playing the Doors Waiting For the Sun album and it's quite happy at 24/192. I am Oversampling at 2x only. Can't really say if it makes the slightest bit of difference.

[Tremayne]

I've never used Air, and confess that I'm not clear what it is, how it could marry in with my system and how it's controlled.
However, intrigued by previous posts, I thought I'd download Air to my dedicated Windows 7 silent PC, and see where that took me.
Unfortunate it won't download. I'm getting an error message saying the Air Virtual Soundcard Driver could not be loaded because Windows requires a signed driver, and this one isn't signed.
Any help in getting past this first hurdle would be gratefully received.

[Rama]

I am going to give finally the Air 3.0.4 a try on my vacant D200. The poor chap is sitting all dusty since I upgraded to D440 pro. But I am not going to sell this unit as I love the damn thing. Had to suffer a lot of pain to get this, in terms of logistics. I hope it is going to give me joy for lot of years to come or atleast till the 5 year warranty runs out. I do wish I had a Macintosh so many fancy software to use on the platform. Windows users don't have much choice. I even have a license for Audirvana from back when i had a Apple Macintosh.