You couldn't make it up!

[Rufus McDufus]

Yep - doesn't matter if you use wi-fi, ethernet or whatever. My understanding is there's two issues - poor wi-fi performance from the wi-fi card which can lead to lots of dropouts unless you site the access point very close to the Devialet, and the white noise/dropout/etc. issue which is a software issue, often claimed by Devialet to be due to an OS (timer?) issue on Windows though it does also happen on Mac too, though less frequently in my own experience.