williewonka
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| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Kgnhifi - do you happen to know the rating of both new and old cables?Are the old ones cat5 or cat6Alternately what is the tested bandwidth of both old and new cablesKnowing this will help me determine the kind of improvement I might be able to at... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Had a chance to think about LAN cables and where a quality cable might make a difference....Basically, anything connected to a router/computer is subject to sending data that is checked for data errors - if an error is detected the data is re-sent... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? I can confirm knghifi's findings re: wireless and wired...First - the wired does not suffer from breaks in the stream - my wireless was bad for that - too many other routers in the neighbourhood according to apple support.Second, the wired is much... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Jeffkad - I took a look at a couple of those and it was difficult to assess just how good the interface was - even those with remote capabilityThe computer based ones were easier to assess and cheaper to implement - plus you can change interfaces ... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? knghifi - GET OUTTA HERE!!! Rolling ethernet cables - really? :-) I switched to wired way back - when the tech support at apple told me the solution to frequent breaks in wireless streaming was to convert EVERYTHING to MP3 - I'm not kidding - if I... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Mapman - if you need any more info use the agon mail serviceCheers | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Mapman - take a look at iTunes help - there is a "Create new Version" which then asks which version type you want to create and lists the iPod - so that might take care of synching and conversion to MP3ALSO - Apple puts files in a default library ... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Itunes does not like WAV - it's renamed my collection a couple of time - that's why I went to AIF - finallySounds like you have a better handle on it than I initially did :-)It surprised me that MAX was able to set album and artist metadata when I... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Oh crap! - you've hit the dreaded "iTunes WAV wart" right off the batWAV does not contain metedata so when you import tracks it puts them into the "Unknown Artist" folder and within that the "Unknown Album" folder - told you it had some warts.HOWE... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Forgot to clarify - when using Audirvana without iTunes integration it plays flac files from anywhere - even NAS drives - it's only when you integrate it with iTunes that it creates the proxy files and needs them both on the computerI think Damien... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Tboooe_You can also get a windows computer - probably cheaperYou can download itunes for windows - its free - not sure if the windows version messes with the files like the Mac does, so you might not need something like Audirvana to deliver files ... | |
| Does it bother you? Trentpancakes - in answer to your original quation - Doesn't bother me at all.When I want to "listen" to quality music I put on a TACET recording - the engineers there are as OC as audiophiles - e.g. Das Mikrofon II, side two, has samples from 24 ... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? One last thing - Audirvana loads the entire track into memory before playing,so there tends to be a slight delay on the HD tracks, but then you can use wireless without any dropouts while playing:-) | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Forgot to mention that I use the USB port on the imacAlternately you can use the optical output, but you need the 3.5mm optical adapter - apple puts the optical output in the headphone socket - I am NOT joking! Took me a couple of months to determ... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? You could go the mac mini route + itunes + audirvanaI use my imac + itunes + audirvana and have 24/192 capability with remote from my droid tablet using a free app called RetuneRetune reads all of the itunes playlists, albums, genres etc... - so i... |