13-Nov-2015, 12:41
(13-Nov-2015, 00:28)ondastar Wrote: To be helpful to those struggling to get a reliable and robust configuration for their particular combination of Phantoms w/without Dialog and Remote, I offer the following..... which after much experimentation and analysis and many bug reports and Devialet design team input now has my system the equivalent of my "hard wired" audiophile system.
First, here is my application scenario.
I have a Dialogue and 3 Silver Phantoms and the P Remote all located in my music room. The Phantoms are set up as L&R channels and center Mix.
[[ The Dialogue optical in is connected to my Dspeaker Anti-mode 2.0 which connects to an optical switch which connects my audio sources (Bluesound node2, OPPO BDP105D, Marantz AVP8801). This connection enables all the native audio from these components as well as my NAS library and Roon running from my Mac Pro and Macbook. The Dspeaker enables me to acoustically "tune" my room response for the sources that are sent to the Dialogue optical in.]]
The Dialogue and Phantoms are connected by Cat 6 Ethernet using 5 "paired" TP Link 8010 1200 mbps CPL's which connect to my Gigabit switch which connects to my Peplink Balance 20 Dual Wan router. The TP Link 8010's are also AC passthrough and on the same branch AC line that is Star connected to a dedicated AC panel used only for gear in the music room. This enables me to have my Phantoms where I want them without filling the room with 10 meter ethernet cables.
Bluetooth and Autoswitch are turned off, and remote support is enabled.
Spark version 1.3.1 is loaded on my Iphone, iPad, Macbook and Mac Pro.
Dialogues and Phantoms are version 1.4.1.12.
The wireless access points are Ruckus 802.11ac Wave2 1.6GB throughput..
WiFi only I found to be very flaky......with dropouts to phase shifting to disappearances and full cold start resets every 1/2 hour.
The belt and suspenders combination of Ethernet and AC passthrough achieved substantial stability, less frequent full resets were required, and I sent the syslog files and observations to Devialet support and the design team sent me a pre release version of 1.4.1.12 which gained a marginal improvement, and I sent another set of syslogs with commentary to support and shortly after they general released 1.4.1.12.
The system has been rock solid with the latest Spark/Dialogue/Phantom release and the belt and suspenders configuration.
There are many possible configuration possibilities based on Devialet's white papers and marketing claims....and I have seen lots of posts indicating folks still struggling to get case hardened robust system performance (and many helpful suggestions).
For those who have achieved a happy glitch free transcendental state, I'd encourage you to post your config detail specifics here to help those who are new to Devialet and can benefit from your experiences.
Many thanks for putting this together. I will try a similar setup. I have TP link CPL's but an older model supporting 300 Mbps. I'll replace them shortly by 1200 bps ones.
I have another question regarding your set-up: to which extent does your DSpeaker improve the sound? it is really noticeable?
