04-Apr-2016, 14:57
(04-Apr-2016, 08:41)hk6230 Wrote: For the past few weeks (with 10 days in between when I have a break), AIR is cracking up on me. I was trying hard to find the culprit(s) and today, I found it and it is fixed. My AIR is sounding great again as before.
Beside sound cracking up, I also noticed on the Devialet AIR's setting panel showing the AIR-ETH and AIR-WIFI keep flickering. In fact, even the volume display was flickering. I had took out devices one by one and replacing them, including changing Ethernet cablings. At the end, the main culprit was the main DHCP router. I found out only when I have difficulty accessing my router setting page. After replacing the router, everything is working smoothly again.
Hope this may help anyone who is having the same issue with AIR.
I share your view that DHCP is a major pb when trying to have AIR work reliably. This has led the French community of Devialet aficionados to establish a few recommendations when trying to setup AIR :
- use a dedicated Airport Extreme, placed just beneath the Master unit, so that the Wifi signal is > -30 db
- dedicate the 2.4 GHz band to the Devialet
- use the 5 GHz band for the Mac and other connections (iPad, ...)
- assign fixed IP addresses to all of the peripherals connected to this WAP, in order to avoid the cracking involved with the DHCP negociation...
Even with those recommendations, you sometimes get lucky hours of perfect SQ, and all of the sudden, for no apparent reason, crackings take over and ruin your listening.
However better the SQ might be with AIR, mainly due to the isolation from HF perturbation, I do not find it reliable enough to use. But the debate still is very alive on the French fora :-)
