Windows 10

[hk6230]

We've got a Devialet 200 and use it with a Windows 10 laptop.  The amp is plugged into ethernet and I was using Air to play my streaming Tidal music.  Stuttering starts after a period and the only way to get rid of it is to turn the amp off and on again which isn't pleasant.

Win10 and AIR are very stable on my NUC i5 with 8GB RAM. My NUC is a dedicated Roon player and I streamed all music via AIR to my Le200. I do encounter white noises on my Win10 tablet with only 2GB RAM, but this happens only for 24/192 music files. For normal 16/44.1 music, white noises rarely, if not never, occurred. And streaming Tidal Hifi desktop app on Win10 via AIR to Le200 definitely not an issue. I reckoned AIR is resource-hungry and needs faster CPU and at least 4GB of RAM. So, I would recommend you to check on your laptop resources and maybe upgrade more RAM for smoother (hopefully, trouble-free) AIR playback. In case you are wondering, my wifi router is an old TP-Link router that only supports 2.4GHz bandwidth. Using AIR-ETH connection has better reliability, too.

As for stuttering, it happens on AIR 2.1.4 beta 4. AIR 2.1.3 on Win10 never stutters.

Again, I won't care what Devialet support says about AIR not compatible with Win10 . Some of them are plain lazy or stupid who doesn't even know their own products better. A lot of us in Devialetchat has successfully getting good, if not perfect, performance and reliability with AIR on Win10. Yes, it may involve a fair bit of trial and error of getting it right, but it worth the effort and save you lots of money on interconnects.