18-Jun-2014, 20:37
My system consists of a Devialet 250; the loudspeakers are B&W 803D and the loudspeaker cable is from LFD.
The sources are:
- Thorens TD160 MkII
- Restek MTUN+ tuner
- PS Audio Perfect Wave Transport, connected to the XLR/EBU input via van den Hul cable.
I prefer handling physical disks (vinyl and CD) over streaming. Vinyl and CD always work without problems. Computers often do something else than streaming, which causes drop-outs.
A headless MacMini is used for the streaming and the music is stored on a 1TB USB disk. I play the music with iTunes. The MacMini is directly connected via Ethernet of 1m length with the Devialet; no switches or anything else. I've configured the Devialet and the Ethernet interface on the MacMini on a 192.168.0.x segment. The LAN in my home is on the 192.168.1.x segment.
Therefore the WiFi interface on the MacMini is on that segment and I can only use the WiFi interface to upload music to the USB disk which contains the music and I manage that via VNC from my laptop.
I'm using a dedicated USB Disk, because iTunes will not find music on a NAS after the MacMini has started up.
I manage the playlists via the app Remote on the iPad or via my Android phone.
The MacMini used to be elsewhere and was connected via Ethernet to my LAN. This way, I had the occasional drop out, but with the direct Ethernet link between MacMini and Devialet as I have now works flawlessly.
Since I had an Ethernet cable into my audio rack (to connect the Devialet to my LAN), I've now connected that cable to an Airport Express. I'm not using WiFi AIR, but this allows my laptop to be connected via WiFi to the Airport Express and via USB to the Devialet and be close the the Airport Express. A distance of a few meters between Airport Express and laptop causes drop outs. This setup is my alternative source. The music is (also) stored on a NAS, hence I need a good WiFi connection to stream the music from the NAS to the laptop. Good means 'close distance' in this case.
On the laptop I use iTunes and also SnowTape for internet radio. My wife doesn't like to mange a PC to listen to radio; the Restek tuner is much simpler to operate.
The sources are:
- Thorens TD160 MkII
- Restek MTUN+ tuner
- PS Audio Perfect Wave Transport, connected to the XLR/EBU input via van den Hul cable.
I prefer handling physical disks (vinyl and CD) over streaming. Vinyl and CD always work without problems. Computers often do something else than streaming, which causes drop-outs.
A headless MacMini is used for the streaming and the music is stored on a 1TB USB disk. I play the music with iTunes. The MacMini is directly connected via Ethernet of 1m length with the Devialet; no switches or anything else. I've configured the Devialet and the Ethernet interface on the MacMini on a 192.168.0.x segment. The LAN in my home is on the 192.168.1.x segment.
Therefore the WiFi interface on the MacMini is on that segment and I can only use the WiFi interface to upload music to the USB disk which contains the music and I manage that via VNC from my laptop.
I'm using a dedicated USB Disk, because iTunes will not find music on a NAS after the MacMini has started up.
I manage the playlists via the app Remote on the iPad or via my Android phone.
The MacMini used to be elsewhere and was connected via Ethernet to my LAN. This way, I had the occasional drop out, but with the direct Ethernet link between MacMini and Devialet as I have now works flawlessly.
Since I had an Ethernet cable into my audio rack (to connect the Devialet to my LAN), I've now connected that cable to an Airport Express. I'm not using WiFi AIR, but this allows my laptop to be connected via WiFi to the Airport Express and via USB to the Devialet and be close the the Airport Express. A distance of a few meters between Airport Express and laptop causes drop outs. This setup is my alternative source. The music is (also) stored on a NAS, hence I need a good WiFi connection to stream the music from the NAS to the laptop. Good means 'close distance' in this case.
On the laptop I use iTunes and also SnowTape for internet radio. My wife doesn't like to mange a PC to listen to radio; the Restek tuner is much simpler to operate.
