SOtM SMS-200

[octaviars]

I've been using the Devialet with Air 3.02 now and JRiver 22 on an absolutely non-dedicated PC. It's is a very powerful desktop PC but used for all sort of other things (among them my wife surfing the net) while I'm streaming music. The PC is powerful enough to do all these and to be honest, I'm not sure if I hear any difference when it's streaming only and nothing else is going on. No crack or glitches or anything with AIR (ethernet) but I was wondering of introducing a SOtM SMS-200 and use NAA (HQplayer) and USB to the Devialet would bring any improvement. Has anybody tried it? Or do I also need a Mutec MC3 USB to hear any difference?

I think that AIR is better than USB input on Devialet 440 and this is also via a ordinary desktop computer. I have tried microRendu and Mustec to AES but to me there was so little difference between them that I decided to go with AIR as it is less stuff to fiddle around with.

Today I run Roon, HQ Player and AIR 3.0.2 over ethernet to my 440Pro and is very happy with that, I have plans to build a dedicated computer to just run this setup but I am waiting to see what Devialets streamerboard brings to the party (I dont have any high hopes for anything usefull).