Innuos Zenith ripper/streamer

[Carcrashboy]

Have been spending time, despite the now infamous Great Welsh Earthquake of 2018, testing out Zenith functions, ROON Backups ( and stacks of housekeeping on legacy albums metadata) etc, and listening to USB v Ethernet.

As mentioned above, the test was Shunyata Venom USB v Supra CAT ethernet cable, not a fair fight but having had good experience with Supra from my iMAC to D400 I felt it was a reasonable test, and Guillaume was kind enough to loan me the Venom.

Testing started with a preference for ethernet, could be that the functionality of ROON/AIR from the iPAD (being the same as iMAC implantation) took my fancy. How ever the more we listed the more that solution sounded  thinner, less life-like, than the Venom which once it had settled down (or maybe I had settled down!) started to sound, dare I say it, 'more analogue'.

This was confirmed last night where I definitely felt I had a balance in the system, warmer than the ethernet, but detailed, I really did hear things I had not heard before, things like  backing singers, guitar fills, and lead vocals at times.

It easy with new stuff, well recorded etc but I was very impressed listening to the first McCartney solo stuff, the music I grew up with, and had never heard it sound so good.

OK so some of that maybe because I hadn't heard it for a while, the stars were aligned, maybe the magnetic fields in South Wales are more conducive to good sound since the earthquake...

I have ordered the Venom USB from Guillaume.

I have also setup ROON backups to be stored on the Zenith, and been able, using an iOS app called Filebrowser to move them to my iCloud account for safe keeping.

I do believe I am now able to go PC/MAC free for the first time since around 1984. (see thread Config by email for more details)