williewonka
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| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Kriskdf - on paper, cat5/6 should suffice, but once the real world kicks in there can be many factors, such as noisy environments, poorly installed connectors, noise from the WWW and quite often these days - crappy quality network cable, that can ... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Knghifi - Audirvana pre-fetches the next track whilst the current track is playing, based on what is selected as the next track. Which track is next depends on the order the listener has selected - e.g. by album, genre, artist,composer, or whateve... | |
| Eichman RCA's - what makes them so good? Well, after a lot of investigation into the Eichman RCA and their design priniciples I opted to proceed in a similar, but different direction.My amp is a Naim 5i mkII - on the first two inputs Naim has opted to use a european DIN connector as well... | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Knghifi - not everything - I've found Home Depot MDF is good for shelves :-)It would be nice to now how the various streaming devices actually stream data, then the impact of good network cables would be easier to assess.For instance, when I was u... | |
| 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 ... |