Ethernet Cables make a difference

[Jean-Marie]

It’s not? It’s not designed to be picky with cables and specific configurations. It’s designed to act and perform the same way no matter what. If your cable isn’t up to standard it won’t perform because it can’t reach the level needed. If your cable is too good it will already be performing at it’s maximum design limits and will not give you any additional performance. It doesn’t change the way it streams based on cables or network conditions. If the conditions aren’t up to standard your audio will skip, not compress or lower in quality to keep up. It just doesn’t do that and that’s the way Devialet designed it. It sends digital content at a locked-in and specific quality no matter what. This is the same as when people say different power cables give different performance levels. Don’t you think what’s supplied in the box would be optimal for the thing it’s made for? The amplifiers are set to act a certain way regardless of cable and the electricity entering Phantom is filtered before hitting the amplifiers. So it’ll always sound the same. Cleaner electricity will make it easier on the filtering process but it won’t effect the final result. If you lack the required electrical requirements then the unit won’t work. It either functions as intended or it doesn’t function.


The Phantom takes a copy of the file requested and caches it into it’s RAM while playing. Depending on your connection speed it could take the whole song in 5 seconds or it could take the whole song in 10 minutes (if that last one is the cause you’ll get skipping, no compression). Every time you play a song on Phantom (apart from through AirPlay or Bluetooth) the entire file is copied to Phantom while playing and accessed directly from RAM within Phantom. It isn’t streamed in the sense that it’s being played live. It is just transferred to Phantom and played all within Phantom. This is how it’s always done it.


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With all due respect, although what you are describing is certainly the way it works when you are listening to a local file using Spark, I highly doubt that this is the way it works then you are listening to a streaming service like Tidal, which was the case there. 
When listening to an internet streaming service, I doubt that the phantoms do anything else than buffering a few seconds of the stream to cope with packets arrival time variation, and then submit it as a stream to the DAC.

Jean-Marie