well... I ended up jumping in, this is my setup now
- sMS-200 w/Uptone-LPS1 > Curious USB > Devialet 120
- Ethernet Isolation - 2x TPLink MC210CS (w/Meanwell PSU on receiving end)
Like most users, I gave up on Air awhile ago just because I couldn't trust my experience with it, all it took was a drop out and it just ruined the experience. sMS-200/RAAT has been perfect, flawless and superior in SQ to Dev Air3... only thing I really don't like with it is its (Apple) AirPlay implementation.
Roon/RAAT is fine, but with AirPlay they've used an out of date daemon (server software) called ShairPort, it hasn't been updated in over 3 years, isn't compatible with iOS 9 or above etc etc.... the sound quality is generally terrible (despite being a lossless protocol, the implementation here is lossy) and is significantly outperformed by a $30 RaspberryPi w/HifiBerry Digi+ Pro running the newer ShairPort-Sync 2.8.6.
Sanghoon Lee at SoTM-Audio has advised me they are working to replace this software and should be released in early March after the current v0.3.3 SMS-200 firmware (right now they're working on implementing some sort of CD ripping functionality into the firmware, not sure how that would be implemented exactly?)
I dunno, I like Roon but for Redbook I'd rather have a superior App interface/UI on my iPad when I'm casually listening to non-Tidal streaming services, than be forced to use the Roon client... I guess I'm a bit outspoken here with that point of view... but thought I'd share my thoughts none the less
- sMS-200 w/Uptone-LPS1 > Curious USB > Devialet 120
- Ethernet Isolation - 2x TPLink MC210CS (w/Meanwell PSU on receiving end)
Like most users, I gave up on Air awhile ago just because I couldn't trust my experience with it, all it took was a drop out and it just ruined the experience. sMS-200/RAAT has been perfect, flawless and superior in SQ to Dev Air3... only thing I really don't like with it is its (Apple) AirPlay implementation.
Roon/RAAT is fine, but with AirPlay they've used an out of date daemon (server software) called ShairPort, it hasn't been updated in over 3 years, isn't compatible with iOS 9 or above etc etc.... the sound quality is generally terrible (despite being a lossless protocol, the implementation here is lossy) and is significantly outperformed by a $30 RaspberryPi w/HifiBerry Digi+ Pro running the newer ShairPort-Sync 2.8.6.
Sanghoon Lee at SoTM-Audio has advised me they are working to replace this software and should be released in early March after the current v0.3.3 SMS-200 firmware (right now they're working on implementing some sort of CD ripping functionality into the firmware, not sure how that would be implemented exactly?)
I dunno, I like Roon but for Redbook I'd rather have a superior App interface/UI on my iPad when I'm casually listening to non-Tidal streaming services, than be forced to use the Roon client... I guess I'm a bit outspoken here with that point of view... but thought I'd share my thoughts none the less