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RE: Which streaming input on the Devialet sounds best to you? - PhilP - 09-Mar-2016 (08-Mar-2016, 23:54)blair.athol Wrote: For me it's just perfect over Air Ethernet using a standard iMac, iTunes or Qobuz and a TimeCapsule as router. That's all and it works as intended. AIR works perfectly for me too. In my system I prefer AIR wifi over AIR Ethernet and I've tried comparing them several times. However, Aurender N100 USB sounds better than AIR in my system so I'm sure Antoine is correct about the high quality sound available via USB from optimised PCs RE: Which streaming input on the Devialet sounds best to you? - Dr Tone - 16-Apr-2016 I would think that AIR ethernet would be the best option. Ethernet ports have galvanized isolation, compared to a noisy wifi radio being turned on in the amp. We have had multiple reports of noise related to wifi being on. Using a good CAT 6A cable would work well around other cables used in your system. Just DON'T use any type of shielded ethernet cable that has the metal connectors on both ends as that would break the galvanic isolation and allow ground noise to flow from device to device along with any other crap it picked up along the way. RE: Which streaming input on the Devialet sounds best to you? - Jnan_devi - 18-Apr-2016 (28-May-2014, 20:48)beerman Wrote:(28-May-2014, 18:02)Antoine Wrote: @beerman, I can't myself edit the poll but the option you mention (direct ethernet) I think is the option "AIR ethernet" I mentioned in the poll or did I miss an additional way to use the ethernet port without the AIR software installed on a PC or Mac? Beerman - I was looking for exact same thing about Computer to Dev through direct ETH cable. In this situation do you have to enable AIR-ETH or this is not needed ?. RE: Which streaming input on the Devialet sounds best to you? - Dr Tone - 18-Apr-2016 (18-Apr-2016, 15:53)Jnan_devi Wrote:(28-May-2014, 20:48)beerman Wrote:(28-May-2014, 18:02)Antoine Wrote: @beerman, I can't myself edit the poll but the option you mention (direct ethernet) I think is the option "AIR ethernet" I mentioned in the poll or did I miss an additional way to use the ethernet port without the AIR software installed on a PC or Mac? Of course you would. All you are doing different is using a cross-over cable and fixed IP addresses. You would need a second network adapter and routing configuration if the computer directly connected to the devialet was headless. RE: Which streaming input on the Devialet sounds best to you? - Jnan_devi - 18-Apr-2016 (18-Apr-2016, 16:43)Dr Tone Wrote:(18-Apr-2016, 15:53)Jnan_devi Wrote: Beerman - I was looking for exact same thing about Computer to Dev through direct ETH cable. In this situation do you have to enable AIR-ETH or this is not needed ?. understood. I assumed stuff which ... forget it . RE: Which streaming input on the Devialet sounds best to you? - baddog - 19-Apr-2016 When I connected my Mac Mini to the Devialet directly via ethernet I used a standard ethernet cable, no cross over cable required. I did assign a fixed address to both machines. RE: Which streaming input on the Devialet sounds best to you? - Hifi_swlon - 19-Apr-2016 Voted USB. I've never tried UPnP and as far as I'm concerned AIR isn't a useable input, it's merely a marketing term. Unless you can actually play music through it without dropouts or other weird noises, it's impossible to judge SQ let alone call it 'the best' RE: Which streaming input on the Devialet sounds best to you? - hk6230 - 19-Apr-2016 I'm late to this poll. I voted AIR-ETH. RE: Which streaming input on the Devialet sounds best to you? - roestano - 19-Dec-2016 (08-Mar-2016, 22:12)Antoine Wrote: It's an old poll. I started it and even I myself voted Air ethernet back then. I know better today than back then! Can you give an estimate on how much improvement there was? Are we talking +5% or +15% per added hardware? RE: Which streaming input on the Devialet sounds best to you? - Antoine - 19-Dec-2016 Haha, so much has again changed here since March 2016. Nope sorry, it's practically impossible for me to convert this into numbers. I guess my poor beta engineers brain isn't wired that way (able to convert a subjective experience into an exact number ) I tried once though but I wouldn't take the numbers as absolutes. It's probably best to completely ignore the numbers and just take the order of the items in the list into account. See here: http://devialetchat.com/showthread.php?tid=3073&pid=41669#pid41669 Also there's too many variables (especially with DIY music servers) to take into account to consider this as a general "truth". It's just my experience, my ears and my system. |