AIR 3 Beta for Mac

[Hifi_swlon]

So now I have a bit of a quandary

I thought I would give the RC Beta 3 on Mac a go, after all, when I bought my Dev 200 I had wanted to use AiR and keep it all simple. As we know, thus far AiR has been a nightmare for most, but hey ho, I gave it a go.

Firstly, with a straight Ethernet connection, it worked through a few tracks and I thought this pretty good, but not up to the SQ of my recent microRendu setup. What the heck I thought, I will switch the network feed that my MR was receiving, which is a pair of TP Link 110 optic fibre isolators, with the unit nearest the MR receiving power from one of the rails of my JS-2. Wow, this elevated the SQ in AiR3 to a level I had not heard before from AiR.

I thought I would stress this a little, so my iMac, which stores my music, runs Roon server and HQP, with a selection of various format tracks all up sampled by HQP to 192kHz. Set HQP to output to Devialet AIR, and I ran for a good hour or so without a hitch. Wonderful sound, no glitches, nothing.

I will persist with this for a few more sessions after my work day, but already the thoughts in my head, have Devialet finally cracked this!?!

AllenB in your network isolation, are the tp links 100 base or gigabit? How easy was it to setup? Is there still a noticeable improvement without powering the final tplink with the JS-2? I've been thinking of trying this for a while.

I'm assuming you're using the js-2 with the rendu as well? So in the optimal config for both - would you say AIR is better or equal or worse than the rendu?