19-Aug-2019, 23:18
I tried 3 different ways of sending music to my Devialet 1000 Pro CI:
1: via USB, 2 stacked MC-3 USB and a REF 10 with Roon
2: via ethernet, optical converters and an Aqvox SE switch with Roon
3: same as 2, but now using the Devialet CI streamer via uPnP and Audirvana
My SQ preference has exactly the reverse order: 1 < 2 << 3. Not sure if the switch and optical converters still make a difference now.
Via uPnP there is simply more detail and more precision. No reason to buy any external boxes at all. I need to do more testing but it also seems that 3 sounds the same on my standard Windows 10 and my optimized (AO, Fidelizer) Windows 2019 partition.
Which makes sense as uPnP has an error correction while AIR and RAAT maybe have not.
1: via USB, 2 stacked MC-3 USB and a REF 10 with Roon
2: via ethernet, optical converters and an Aqvox SE switch with Roon
3: same as 2, but now using the Devialet CI streamer via uPnP and Audirvana
My SQ preference has exactly the reverse order: 1 < 2 << 3. Not sure if the switch and optical converters still make a difference now.
Via uPnP there is simply more detail and more precision. No reason to buy any external boxes at all. I need to do more testing but it also seems that 3 sounds the same on my standard Windows 10 and my optimized (AO, Fidelizer) Windows 2019 partition.
Which makes sense as uPnP has an error correction while AIR and RAAT maybe have not.
