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I don't know why, but I have a lot of trouble with this new OSX El Captain . Connection wiith Air Ethernet is goog but not with Air Wifi (better for SQ when it woks wrt ethenet), the connection is diffcult and not stable. I had no problems with Yosemite.
I use a mac mini 2012 and an airport extreme with the last firmware.
I have asked a support from Devialet, they answer that the AIR application is not yet updated for El Captain.
I think have to downgrade to Yosemite
It is very strange and disturbing , if AIR firmware is so sensitive with OSX.
Again a good reason to whish a streaming solution without a Mac or PC OS.
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I don't know if it is a definitive solution for me since it is still a bit early to tell, but since I completely uninstalled and nuked the automated update daemons of Google as well as disabled automated updating of Microsoft, flash and java, I have not had a single drop for the last two days while I was having at least a couple of dropouts every days with El Capitan and about once a day with Mavericks.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Jean-Marie
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After my problems with OS X El Captain, I have done a complete reinstall with my original OS X Mountain Lion for my mac-mini.
First, now I have no dropout and a good stability of Air wifi, but furthermore, the magic of the SQ is come back !
I didn't realise, but after the previous udate of Yosemite, the SQ was not so good. I thought, that it becomes a habit and it was normal that I was not always surprised by the excellence of the D800.
Now, I think that AIR is really very good, but it is very sensitive to the Mac environment (OS X, but also maybe other installed software). In conclusion, I think, I have to keep my mac mini without new updates and to use it only for music streaming or small process, or to go with a dedicated streamer (For example Melco).
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So frustrating: I got a new Mac with 10.11.2, but AIR crashes on startup. It says "The AIR Virtual Soundcard Driver could not be loaded", whatever this means. Has anybody solved this?
So I play my music via PureMusic and AES/EBU which has a slightly better SQ than ethernet. But frustrating it is!