I remember you have at&t fiber but please remind me what mesh network you are using.
Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?
I have a good analogue front end. Not stratuspherically good but good enough for this comparison. VPI Prime Signature 21 turntable, Pass Labs XP-25 pono preamp, Pass Labs XP-30 preamp and Hovland Radia amp. It has a lovely, very involving sound. On the right recording, I just drop everythng and am drawn in to listen.
My streamer, on the other hand, is decent but not spectacular. It is better than my CD player, but it is not jaw-dropping like my analogue front-end. My question is this: does anyone have a high-end, tier-one streamer (dCS Bartok Apex, Lumin X2, or something like them) that can rival a good analogue system?
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@audio-b-dog my friend, who’s not an audiophile and doesn’t stream music, just replaced his TP Link Deco with eero 7 based on my recommendation after numerous issues in the course of several months that included drop outs and loss of network requiring frequent reboots. Eero is solid as a rock. I’ve been using it for years |
I have never had problems with TP Link. Before I go into the expense of Eero, I'll see if another mesh will fix it. And partly, I'm not really sure it is the internet. I think the problem is that it drops at long cuts. Jplay just dropped in the middle of an 18 minute cut and did it a second and third time at exactly the same place. Mconnect got through the cut without any problem. It seems as though internet drop offs would be more random than that. I will try your mesh fix, but I think it has something to do with the handshake between the Meitner MA3i and the music interface. I have not yet figured out how to use Qobuz connect, but I will and I'll see how that works. I think I'll also contact Meitner. To have two music interfaces, Jplay and Mconnect to drop off in the exact same place on a long cut doesn't seem like network. But I'll try the mesh fix and see what happens. I'm sure Eero is great, but it is also expensive. So I'll try some other things first. |
@audio-b-dog the dropouts can be related to DNS (domain name system) which is your provider, at&t. We looked at changing DNS in TP Link Deco but there’s no way to do it. Eero allows you to change it to Google or Cloudflare DNS and it will improve streaming. I think even the base eero might fix it. But yes try it with an extra mesh node. You can return it if it won’t make a difference. good thing about eero is these are backward compatible with original which are like $40 and you can scatter them around your house. |
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