20-May-2016, 12:51
(20-May-2016, 05:37)hk6230 Wrote: After 2 days of listening to AIR3.0, now I'm back to my old RoonBridge setup on Ultrabook/Win8.1/AIR2.1.3/JPlay6.2/Fidelizer7.2. The difference is very minimal. I would probably have to admit I still prefer this old setup over AIR3.0. I'm now even testing it on wireless connection to a wireless router, achieving merely 150mbps connection only.
This post actually got me thinking. I do tend to think of AIR as a kind of benchmark for sound quality, a benchmark that many on this forum can relate to. So if we get a post saying that a Melco N1A (or whatever) sounds slightly better than AIR, then many of us can directly relate to this. However, I have on occasion wondered if AIR is not a benchmark, but in fact two benchmarks. That is Mac + AIR might be fundamentally different to Windows + AIR. Taking the recent reports of how good Mac AIR 3 sounds, the Windows users get grumpy and think 'when will we get Windows AIR 3?', but who knows, maybe Windows AIR 2 sounds more or less as good? Just speculation on my part (I don't have a mac, so can't try it), although HK's post indicates that there isn't much in it.
Has anyone ever tried a direct comparison of Mac AIR vs Windows AIR? Maybe they sound more or less identical, but maybe they don't??
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