Streaming vs Physical Media

@retiredfarmer

I was offered the Linn cd12 at at great prices the dealer was wanting rid of it and I should have done what it took to buy that one but I past on it back in the day.

Yes, the original price was rather steep. I heard one at a London show around 20 years ago, and whilst it didn’t fully convince me, I was certainly impressed by vastness of the size and scale of the image it literally threw out into the room.

Strawberry Fields Forever has never sounded the same since.

Having said all of that, nothing (so far) can match streaming for sheer convenience. Particularly if, like me, you’re not one to play albums from start to finish.

I can’t think of than a dozen like that.

So just imagine having over 100GB of music at your fingertips.

Sheer bliss.

@steakster

I agree with you wholeheartedly on clean power and synergy. That’s what I set out to accomplish four years ago when I started putting together my current system. And yes, Sablon Ethernet cables are well designed and highly sought after. I did reach out to Mark Coles to make me a set of Ethernet cable with M12 connectors but to my disappointment, he stopped working with M12 plugs. I end up going with JCAT Signature LAN GOLD M12 X, amazing cable and I couldn’t be any happier with end results.

Thank you again for your recommendation on Fidelizer router, definitely going to audition one in very near future.

@lalitk 

Keetakawee @Fidelizer-Audio provides excellent customer service. Be sure to be clear on how you plan to use the AirStream. That will determine how he formats the firmware. For my WiFi, the AirStream was formatted as an access point - not as a router which provides the DLNA.  This added another LPS, power cord & ethernet cable.   Yet, it can be defaulted to a standard router that provides the DLNA.   If you’ll be using it in a hardwired manner, the setup might be different. Get the particulars first.

Ultimately there is no arguing with the fact that all the 1's and 0's get to the streamer in the right order because of the TCP/IP protocol which is designed to do this.

So what does this mean? This means the music is sent perfectly to the streamer / bridge.

So if the streamer is always getting a perfect binary signal where does it go wrong?

Well the only thing I can think of is that noise is entering the system along with the binary stream. It's noise that's the polluter nothing else can be!

But whatever the outcome - TCP/IP ensures a perfect binary order due to checksumming the stream <-- therefore nothing at all can go wrong at this stage (unless you have a bad network).