Devialet air settings

[mdconnelly]

I've been a long-time user of various forms of Squeezeboxes over the years.  SlimDevices clearly mastered the art of streaming with that (well over a decade ago!). So, no, there really isn't a good excuse for Devialet's long-term problems with AIR.  I jumped onto Roon when they started supporting Squeezeboxes as endpoints.  And Roon via a SB to Devialet sounds just as good as LMS (the Squeezebox server).  

But, in my comparison of streaming via a Squeezebox Touch to my Devialet vs AIR, I felt AIR did sound a bit better (well, when it worked).  I'm not saying night and day, but noticeable IMO... just a bit more open and refined.

But, I just ordered a microRendu (I was on the early mailing list) so hopefully within a week or so, I'll have a good handle if/how the microRendu may sound compared to AIR. But even if it sounds exactly the same as AIR, it will work all-the-time.   My hope... no more AIR for me.

If curious, check it out here: http://sonore.us/microrendu/.  Can't wait to see if this lives up to the anticipation.

Can you stream to your Touch trough air and then go from Touch to Dev with wire ?

If you're talking "air" as in Wifi, then yes.   An SB Touch does have wifi built-in so you could stream to it using Roon or LMS and then SPDIF or optical out to the Dev.   

But if by "air' you mean "AIR", then no.   To the best of my knowledge AIR is a proprietary streaming solution of Devialet.  Music can be streamed from any PC or Mac on your network via he AIR software but destination is only the Devialet.