30-Jul-2016, 09:29
(30-Jul-2016, 07:10)AllenB Wrote: I've been thinking of trying this for a whil, I bought as a punt, but also with the thought that this might also give me isolation from storms, which is a big consideration where I am going to live next year.Sounds interesting...
(30-Jul-2016, 07:10)AllenB Wrote: Hence my quandary
Same here.
It's a much better quandary than the one up to this point which has been researching and buying kit to give a USB source, but....
I'll try AIR this week, I owe it to myself. But even if it works, (and maybe even sounds better than my rendu & ifi solution), it won't be clear cut. Firstly I'll always have that niggling feeling it's going to stop working, or worse, that I'm hearing some sort of crackling/popping noises - I found that really played tricks with my mind and was utterly annoying - so it's left me scarred. Then I'll be thinking what if I then sell the rendu and assosisted goodies like Intona and cables, and then AIR stops working with an OS update, or they start focussing all their efforts on the new streamer board instead. I wouldn't then want to have to go through the process again.
It's not all against AIR though. The one thing it would allow is the use of Dirac as I could pipe that into the AIR driver. Right now I'm without it and I miss it quite a lot. I know Roon have convolvers on their roadmap, but when and what's unknown - I certainly don't want to be trying to manually combine shed loads of EQ curves in REW and cobbling together filters.
Anyone tried DSD in this new AIR release?
>>> 1st Place Award: Devialet, last decades most disappointing technology purchase. <<<
