Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?

@audphile1 

I do have a dedicated line running to my stereo. When we remodeled the house I made sure that one was put in. Everything important is plugged into a Shunyata Venom 16 power conditioner which has plugs for digital, so the digital equipment is separated from the other equipment.

I think it's worth $100 to give it a try. In layman's terms, it seems as though the handshake between the iPad and Meitner is momentarily failing. I'll put the battery backup, which is made for backing up routers and computer equipment, in tomorrow. The drop-offs have become very rare, but I did notice that two times they happened when something drew on the power. I no longer have drop-offs in the cuts you and I talked about earlier. So, something has definitely been fixed with the Eero mesh system. 

The reason why I don’t think it’s the network but rather the system components is because Meitner buffers the incoming data stream. It’s good for around a minute or so. You can try it - when music is playing in the middle of the song just pull the Ethernet cable out. It will continue without a hiccup for at least 45sec to a minute. 
What you described sounds like a momentary voltage drop that cuts power to most likely your preamp or DAC, or may be even the amp. 
So again, even if you unplug your network or pull Ethernet cable out, the music will continue playing. 

@audio-b-dog and @kirkwallace I posted a thread on how to add pictures to the forum discussion in case you guys are interested 

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/posting-pictures-in-a-forum-discussion

@audphile1 

Sorry for being silent for so long. I got locked out of Audiogon and just figured out how to get back in. I have posted a photo of my system.

So, here is where I am at in terms of getting a pretty solid inteface with my iPad and the Meitner MA3i. I find that Qobuz connect is the most stable interface for me. I called Eero and had them change my protocol to Open DNS. That helped with drop outs. I was having a problem with drop offs when my air conditioning came on, and Open DNS seemed to fix that also.

 I have two last bugs to fix. At the end of tracks there is a slight pause because my fiber hub, which is also a router, and the Eero and fiber hub compete to cut over to the next track. I have a way to fix that.

BTW, gapless works perfectly on Qobuz connect. The one last little problem is to get Qobuz connect to default to the Meitner rather than my iPad. AI gave me a fix on that, which I'll try later.

@audio-b-dog I’ll be honest I’m puzzled by the dns setting changes addressing issues with drop outs when AC kicks in. I’d say it has nothing to do with it. The drop outs are probably voltage fluctuations.  If this has never happened with vinyl, can you try powering the Meitner off the same circuit where you currently have your vinyl rig plugged in? How long are these dropouts normally? Over a minute? It could be also the circuit the router is plugged into. The AC will pull large amounts of current on start up and if the router gets affected that could explain the dropouts. It will restart. Meitner will use up its buffer and stop until the router restarts. And until you restart the playback.