SOtM SMS-200

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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).

Thanks for the reply. In that case, I will not purchase another device, saves money and space   I have the D800 and haven't upgraded to pro as it I couldn't justify 7000 euros for the improvement in SQ. The streamer board we know nothing about and I'm not sure what difference it can make. Isn't using a PC on a network and Air 3 is already streaming? Maybe with a steamer board, it will be possible to stream from a NAS directly but that is not worth 7000 (for me at least).
Have you found Roon+HQplayer better than Jriver? What settings do you use with HQplayer. I'm just going to download it and give it a try.