It works the same way regardless. It’s downloading the file, temporarily storing it in RAM and decoding it from there.
It’s an intention of design within Devialet to do this to ensure that you always receive the absolute top sound quality. It does cause for more cut outs if the network isn’t up to scratch in offering up that full sized file but it ensures the same quality each and every time.
That is why you can only stream Tidal natively when you have a Dialogue attached with the system. The bigger and higher quality files require a stop in with Dialogue for the initial processing. Dialogue offers more processing capabilities for those files due to the way they’re encoded and transmitted through the Internet. Once they’re processed on Dialogue they’re either split into seperate files for each Phantom in the system or the entirety is sent to your single Phantom and cached into the RAM for final decoding and playback. The whole process stays digital and works like a file transfer. Download. Process. Download. Process. Playback. Only 30% of the file needs to be transferred for playback to begin. It’s processed in real time with Dialogue accounting for the delay between it receiving the file and processing it then sending it onwards to Phantom. Mostly it sends 10% more than required by Phantom at any given time to make up for any delay or network slowdown. In extreme cases though it’s not enough and you’ll get a pause or skip until either downloading f or processing is completed and the file is passed onwards to Phantom.
Also why some users have troubles with dropouts and skipping when using a Dialogue sometimes because the additional data passing through the components requires a little more bandwidth than if it were just going directly to a Phantom.
And I’m not saying it’s a ‘perfect’ product. I’m saying it wasn’t designed to ‘stream’ the data. It was designed to ‘download’ the digital file and do on device decoding, processing and all other corrections. The final result that lands on device is always the same as its a file, not a stream of audio. No jitter or other inconsistencies. It comes as a complete copy of the original file or it doesn’t come at all.
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It’s an intention of design within Devialet to do this to ensure that you always receive the absolute top sound quality. It does cause for more cut outs if the network isn’t up to scratch in offering up that full sized file but it ensures the same quality each and every time.
That is why you can only stream Tidal natively when you have a Dialogue attached with the system. The bigger and higher quality files require a stop in with Dialogue for the initial processing. Dialogue offers more processing capabilities for those files due to the way they’re encoded and transmitted through the Internet. Once they’re processed on Dialogue they’re either split into seperate files for each Phantom in the system or the entirety is sent to your single Phantom and cached into the RAM for final decoding and playback. The whole process stays digital and works like a file transfer. Download. Process. Download. Process. Playback. Only 30% of the file needs to be transferred for playback to begin. It’s processed in real time with Dialogue accounting for the delay between it receiving the file and processing it then sending it onwards to Phantom. Mostly it sends 10% more than required by Phantom at any given time to make up for any delay or network slowdown. In extreme cases though it’s not enough and you’ll get a pause or skip until either downloading f or processing is completed and the file is passed onwards to Phantom.
Also why some users have troubles with dropouts and skipping when using a Dialogue sometimes because the additional data passing through the components requires a little more bandwidth than if it were just going directly to a Phantom.
And I’m not saying it’s a ‘perfect’ product. I’m saying it wasn’t designed to ‘stream’ the data. It was designed to ‘download’ the digital file and do on device decoding, processing and all other corrections. The final result that lands on device is always the same as its a file, not a stream of audio. No jitter or other inconsistencies. It comes as a complete copy of the original file or it doesn’t come at all.
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Devialet Phantom (White)
