Fredouille setting

[Jean-Marie]

Hi Jean-Marie,

Many thanks ofr your infos.

I was wondering if Experts are Ok with upnp, I cannot remember where, but I read, somewhere they where not.

As I will adapt my server to the 250, Jcat USB XE or Jcat NetCard Femto that's the reason why I was asking which one is better (USB or RJ45).

I revert to JPLAY Femto. I will just need to install the server version and the Devialet's streamer wil read It ? Is that correct ?
So JPLay Femto is made for USB connection. Wil it recognize the Air virtual Sound card ?

Many thanks for your help.

Have a Nice day.

Fred

Frédéric,

I'm not a specialist of windows, nor JPlay Femto either, so I don't know how deep in the windows stack they are interfacing.

There is a possibility that it only allows USB if it interfaces deep enough and bypasses most of the windows stack.

Unless another member have already this experience or deeper knowledge, I would venture that only experimentation will tell you for sure.

Concerning the relative quality of the two interfaces, I will say two things:

1. If you browse this forum (as well as others) you will find people who have been able to use one or the other approach to their satisfaction and for whom their interface of choice was the best.
   
2. Personally, I have not distinguished any difference between the various interfaces and I am using indifferently USB, Air or Roon Raat (pro-ci only) with the only two distinctions for me being that USB has ultra-low latency while RJ45 has inherent latency due to buffers needed to compensate network jitter from one hand and for the other hand USB imposes me to have my laptop close to my D220 while network solution allows me to keep it in my office.
   

So I am convinced that you can reach a similar level of quality with both.

Jean-Marie