(01-Apr-2016, 13:10)Confused Wrote: How are you finding the 'network player' aspects of the Amethyst?
Hi Confused,
I configured the software to use the network player yesterday. And started to listen to this network input.
What can I say ? This is absolutely awesome
I was pleased by the ease of use of the interface of Jplayer/Jremote for playing the music located on the MacMini and bubbleupnpserver/Linn Kazoo for streaming Qobuz. This all worked very flawlessly and with little efforts. As much as I like Audirvana as a player and the efforts of Damien, its developer, to support it, I am sometimes tired by stability issues. This does not seem to be the case at this stage with the software I am using to stream.
As far as SQ is concerned, I have been used in the past 2 months to the 'presence' which is given to the sound by the Mutec cascade. I am sometimes missing this 'presence' a little bit when listening to the Network input. But this really is of the second or third order when compared to the other improvements offered by this machine (incredible 3D soundstage, perfect tonal balance in accordance with the room, interesting new sound signature of the internal DAC, aso). So I am on the same page with Guillaume : this is a very warm recommendation from me. I have the feeling this might well be what I expected when buying the Devialet and that my quest for better SQ will stop there for a big while
