Basic streaming to D200/D250 question

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Womaz

Thanks,
Unfortunately that doesn't jive with my understanding of the word Streamer, often used to describe the D series. A streamer takes an inbound ethernet signal and converts it into a digital output or (if an internal DAC is present, such as it is in the Devialet) converts it into an analog output...

You are spot on. AIR works great for some and not for others. I believe Devialet advertise this function and should not be.
The Devialet is however offers excellent sound quality. I bought it as a one box solution and after 9 months of problems with AIR, I bought a Melco to work as a streaming solution. To call the Devialet a streamer to me is misleading........but I guess thats beause I was one of the users where the AIR function was just unreliable.

One box solution?? definitely not. Amazing amp.....most definitely.

I think that calling it a one box solution even if AIR is working is wrong, a one box solution would to me mean that everything is built in even the streaming software and the controlpoint with AIR it is a 2 box solution, Devialet plus a computer but hey that is just me

When I bougt my first 200 I never thougt of using AIR since I dont want to have a computer on everytime I want to listen to music so I went with the Aries and that was a good choice until Auralic decided to stop developing the app for Android so now one cant use their Lightnig DS app on Android to connect the Aries to Tidal only iOS works now

So now I ither use Bubble UPnP to control my Aries or testing out ROON ready for 14 days trial period on ROON, this works ok but I am not shure if I want to have the computer on and run ROON on it but future will tell. If Devialet gets ROON Ready I would consider to have another computer that is on all of the time and runs ROON and I could get rid of my Aries.