Ethernet streaming and occasional white noise on Windows

[PhilP]

I asked Thierry about this at the Guilford Audio event today. He confirmed that Devialet continue to work on a solution, although he did make the point about the shear variety of computer configurations that exist, particularly with PC's. He seemed to suggest that the issue with WASAPI streaming very gradually going out of sync. To be honest, I'm not 100% sure what this actually means or implies!

So a clock sync problem? Maybe there's a bug in WASAPI. It wouldn't really be a surprise. I seem to remember there was a problem with USB DACs stuttering a couple of years ago which I think was traced to a WASAPI bug.

I only have the white noise problem with the AIR driver and WASAPI, not when using WASAPI with USB. Even if there is a bug in WASAPI, Devialet should try to create a workaround in the AIR code and avoid saying "not our problem - it's WASAPI's fault". While they wait for Microsoft to fix WASAPI their users get all the trouble. Isn't the noise problem present on Mac OS too? If so, WASAPI is not the problem.

I certainly don't have any problems with OS X streaming using AIR via wi-fi or ethernet even after streaming for several hours.