14-Jan-2017, 17:03
The bridge is up&running now with the SMS-200 connected. Easy peasy, plug&play!
Powered down the SMS-200. Took the downstairs FMC upstairs, connected it to the Intel I210-T1 NIC (PCI Express) of my music server. Then unwound the 20m fibre cable and connected it to the FMC connected to the SMS-200 first and then to the upstairs FMC and the fiber link light lit up.
Then just instructed Windows to add both NIC's to a bridge and set the previous IP config of the primary NIC to the new bridge adapter and powered up the SMS-200 which booted and got it's IP address from the DHCP server in my router as the Eunhasu immediately loaded when I visited it in my browser. In effect this instruction works as indicated: http://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-an...windows-10
Listening to the system now and music I've listened to often in the past few weeks and I need more time to be absolutely sure (confirmation bias is a bitch!) but my first impressions are about as positive as all I've read thus far, this direct connection indeed seems to do something very good. Does it ever end?
Sound staging seems to be more accurate and in any case more enveloping/extended in all three dimensions with better separation but without losing cohesion. Low level detail retrieval has improved (or distortion/jitter is lowered) making everything sound more natural/cleaner/easier to follow also enhancing microdynamics and reproduction of vibrato and subtle timbre variations like in piano and guitars. Bass is also more powerful/direct and notes develop more fully, from beginning to end.
Next after some more listening: try to convert from a bridged adapter setup to two separate routed subnets to restore throughput performance.
NB. I've only tested with Roon RAAT and will test Airplay/Shairport mode later. I don't need anything else.
Powered down the SMS-200. Took the downstairs FMC upstairs, connected it to the Intel I210-T1 NIC (PCI Express) of my music server. Then unwound the 20m fibre cable and connected it to the FMC connected to the SMS-200 first and then to the upstairs FMC and the fiber link light lit up.
Then just instructed Windows to add both NIC's to a bridge and set the previous IP config of the primary NIC to the new bridge adapter and powered up the SMS-200 which booted and got it's IP address from the DHCP server in my router as the Eunhasu immediately loaded when I visited it in my browser. In effect this instruction works as indicated: http://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-an...windows-10
Listening to the system now and music I've listened to often in the past few weeks and I need more time to be absolutely sure (confirmation bias is a bitch!) but my first impressions are about as positive as all I've read thus far, this direct connection indeed seems to do something very good. Does it ever end?
Sound staging seems to be more accurate and in any case more enveloping/extended in all three dimensions with better separation but without losing cohesion. Low level detail retrieval has improved (or distortion/jitter is lowered) making everything sound more natural/cleaner/easier to follow also enhancing microdynamics and reproduction of vibrato and subtle timbre variations like in piano and guitars. Bass is also more powerful/direct and notes develop more fully, from beginning to end.
Next after some more listening: try to convert from a bridged adapter setup to two separate routed subnets to restore throughput performance.
NB. I've only tested with Roon RAAT and will test Airplay/Shairport mode later. I don't need anything else.
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