AIR 3 Beta for Mac

[Zappydev]

@Hifi_swlon Yes I did notice a very short pauses. Happened about few days ago. I read my post again, "happens " should have been happened. That's when I increased delay from  0.5sec to 1sec to 2sec. No issues since then.

Coming back to AIR3_WIFI playing 24/192 - plays perfectly. Played about 5 tracks, not a single issue. All downloads from B&W music society. Devialet also displays 192.

<edit> I have packed my AQ jitter bug and cable for a rainy day.  

Sadly, my initial euphoria is wearing off. It seems that AIR3 is not completely bulletproof, and I am getting too many instances of short pauses, and Dalek stuttering every now and then. I though it was limited to WiFi, but actually, it is no better with a wired connection, and happens on all formats. I just switched it over to a new quad-core iMac with 32GB, and it makes no difference. I suppose I could blame Dirac, but as @Hifi_swlon commented a while ago, once you get used to it, there is no going back. I didn't order a uRendu, but if I had one, I wouldn't be in a rush to sell it just yet.

I wonder if it's other software running on the Mac that interferes occasionally with AIR? I usually only run iTunes or Qobuz Desktop and AIR3 on my MacBook whilst listening to music (though I do occasionally use Safari) and have screen saver turned off so there's really nothing else running that could cause a problem.

It's hard to say. Apart from DLRCS there is no other application running on the Mac, but of course there are any number of internal processes going on all the time. At least AIR3 doesn't keep blowing up the whole system and forcing a reboot, but it is still a long way from what I would expect from a 'high end' product.

EDIT: After a bit more fiddling, it seems that without DLRCS in the chain, the problems go away. So, this suggests that something in the sequence RoonBridge > DLRCS >AIR3b is not entirely happy. I have minimal experience with Dirac (just on a 30-day trial for now) so if anyone with more Dirac experience has anything to add which may help, then fire away.