06-Jun-2021, 15:55
(06-Jun-2021, 14:09)Taucher669 Wrote: I have to come back to my own post here with some new findings:
Most important - strong temperature raise has come down to normal levels after some time. Explaination could be that the subjective temperature which can be felt outside at the hetsink might be delayed ... It seems that the head (processor load) during the update process and thereafter (clean-up?) is higher than normal and this will come down after some 30 minutes or so. I have written the post right after the update ... so ... they were still hot
Standby Mode: Back working. Here it seems that right after the update it is not advised to play around with standby mode. I have then tried after around an hour of playing music and when I finished listening and tried again long pressing the button (5 sec or so) did the job and they went to sleep as before. Short press will wake them up - so at the end all good as before.
I just tested feeding the eggs with heavy stuff aka MQA 192kHz via the following signal chain:
Tidal - connected to ROON - WIFI - Bluesound Node II - optical - Devialet DIALOG - Ethernet - 2 linked Stereo Pairs of Phantom I Gold
This works perfectly with no hickups and perfect synch: ROON sends unfold MQA via RAAT to Node II - Node II is rendering MQA and sending uncompressed and enriched MQA signal at 192kHZ via Optical to DIALOG - DIALOG is distributing it to the 4 Golds
Thanks for the informative posts!
A few questions - in this setup, are the Phantoms downsampling the signal to 48 kHz, or is the signal processing in the speakers bypassed? I’ve been tempted to go this way, as I find MQA intriguing.
Also, have you had issues with AirPlay 2 from Tidal on your iOS devices (I see you have Mac, so I’m speculating)? I don’t know if it’s my Tidal version or iOS 14.7 B2, but I can’t get Tidal on my Devialet’s via AirPlay. Apple Music works fine.
