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Streaming Qobuz via iPad

I have the Qobuz app on my iPad and I stream to my Marantz streamer into my Bifrost 2 DAC. The thing is the streaming is twitchy or even drops out for a second or two before continuing on. By twitchy I mean I get these hangups in the music accompanied by pops. 
 

what could be causing this?  Is this an iPad issue or bandwidth issue? Also, just to confirm, is the iPad just acting as a remote control and the Wi-Fi music signal is coming from the Wi-Fi router?  Sorry not really technically proficient in computer. 

last_lemming
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cleeds
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sfar

... the iPad is acting just as a remote control.

The OP said he's using the Qobuz app, so it's likely that he's using wifi and Airplay to get the signal to his streamer. That may be the source of his dropouts.

last_lemming OP
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Thank you for the responses.

sfar,

can you elaborate?

 

btw, I should have added this originally; I use Tidal as well and it doesn’t glitch, However it used  to glitch the same as I am currently glitching with Qubuz when I selected hi-res music.  When I brought it down to CD quality the glitching stopped. But with Qubuz I get glitching with CD quality. 

last_lemming OP
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Also forgot to mention that while listening to the music while using the Qobuz app and looking around in the app, music glitches more.

the weird thing is, while the song is playing, if you look at the songs progress bar, the music data appears to load well ahead relative to where it is in the actual playback. But I’m still glitching.

 

BTW Cleeds, 

to be clear, I’m using it the Qobuz app on the iPad to control the music. 

ghdprentice
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OP,

I am confused. If what you say is that you are streaming “from” your iPad. That is the problem. This probably means you are using communication from the iPad to the streamer… you do not want to do that. This is exactly what happens to me when I tried this. This is an Apple communication problem. You do not want to be using the Qobuz app on the iPad. You want to use the Marantz app on your iPad to control the Marantz. The Marantz should have an internal app to link up with Qobuz. 
 

You want the Marantz to pick up the signal directly and use the iPad as controller. What model do you have? 

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ghdprentice

If what you say is that you are streaming “from” your iPad. That is the problem. This probably means you are using communication from the iPad to the streamer… you do not want to do that ... This is an Apple communication problem.

Eggzactly!

You do not want to be using the Qobuz app on the iPad. You want to use the Marantz app on your iPad to control the Marantz. The Marantz should have an internal app to link up with Qobuz.

Yup. Otherwise, he’s sending the Qobuz signal from iPad to the Marantz using Airplay (or similar), which relies on wifi and is also limited to 16/44.1.

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