23-Jul-2016, 04:39
"Finally" I thought to myself, Streaming built in! Maybe I can use Air 3 and get the same results as others with beta 3.
Well there's good news and bad news.
First, understand, I've never been able to successfully stream to my 120. Ever. WiFi, Ethernet - never had a noise free connection. My 120 sits about 20' from my router as well. I tinkered around with a variety of suggestions floating around. No change. I've been using the spdif output from an Aries mini with a Teddy Pardo PSU, which has worked flawlessly. For the cost of that solution, I'm prepared to be a bit forgiving of the only control app running on an iPhone while the promised HTML client is created.
The good news: I was able to stream using WiFi and Ethernet entirely noise free.
The bad news: ... for about two minutes. Ethernet / WiFi - no change. It's like I have a time limited demo version.
Air locks up and the spinning beach-ball of doom proceeds to mock indefinitely until I reboot my Mac. TIDAL playing through Chrome will happily continue uninterrupted via a different audio output.
In the brief time I had for comparison, for sound quality I have no plans to part with the Aries mini which sounds significantly better 2D versus 3D plus gobs of detail. And works. The Auralic Altair is looking increasingly interesting as a partial replacement for my 120.
Well there's good news and bad news.
First, understand, I've never been able to successfully stream to my 120. Ever. WiFi, Ethernet - never had a noise free connection. My 120 sits about 20' from my router as well. I tinkered around with a variety of suggestions floating around. No change. I've been using the spdif output from an Aries mini with a Teddy Pardo PSU, which has worked flawlessly. For the cost of that solution, I'm prepared to be a bit forgiving of the only control app running on an iPhone while the promised HTML client is created.
The good news: I was able to stream using WiFi and Ethernet entirely noise free.
The bad news: ... for about two minutes. Ethernet / WiFi - no change. It's like I have a time limited demo version.
Air locks up and the spinning beach-ball of doom proceeds to mock indefinitely until I reboot my Mac. TIDAL playing through Chrome will happily continue uninterrupted via a different audio output.
In the brief time I had for comparison, for sound quality I have no plans to part with the Aries mini which sounds significantly better 2D versus 3D plus gobs of detail. And works. The Auralic Altair is looking increasingly interesting as a partial replacement for my 120.
Devialet 120 + Linn Ninka or KEF LS50
