@drbay LOL!
Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West?
I’ve been following the streaming threads here for a while now, and I find it both exhilarating and intimidating. I mean, we all know everything in high-end audio matters to some degree or another, right (Ok, maybe except for the flat earth contingent)? From what I’m reading and from my own experience the process of optimizing steaming has near unlimited potential, and some even say it rivals or even surpasses vinyl if taken to the max. Cables, routers, optical, filters, extenders, power supplies, switches, etc., they all seem to make a significant difference despite the naysayers who say bits are just bits. I’m all in on this steaming renaissance, but most of the jewels of useful info are buried in other posts, so I’d like to have this be a consolidator post of your best streaming experiences and recommendations for others who could benefit greatly from your hard-won victories and maybe save a lot of people the agony you went through to get to streaming nirvana. So have at it — let’s empower this community in this noble task and help everyone realize the amazing potential of this magic gift to audiophiles. What say you?
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@baylinor Thanks a lot for the tip of uninstalling the app to get it to recognize the streamer again. I didn’t think of that, and all the suggestions I got involved rebooting everything starting with the router, but I’m traveling so that’s not an option right now. I do have a TP-Link AC2600 and a Wireworld Starlight 8 Ethernet cable so once I get home I’ll be going hardwired from that and hopefully that’ll be the end of this digital horror show. Argh. |
Yes, at first I did the same thing, running around to disconnect the router for 5 minutes, and the extender and the bluesound, as was recommended and it was a waste of time and really didn't even work. Uninstall and reinstall app can be done in a couple minutes from your chair and always worked. You are welcome, you helped me in the past too. |
My conclusion after buying streamers and testing them is that the USBridge Signature with Shanti PS is awesome in it's price range. Innuous Zenith MKII ended up in my system. Those of you eschewing this technology will eventually wish you'd done it sooner. $5K for a streamer and $10K for a DAC (might even be less) is not a lot compared to other components. Jerry |
There are two long running threads on Headfi involving the Zen Stream with many helpful people that are both long time users and tech savvy in terms of it's operation and the software. Once of the thread involves setup and reset procedures for the unit. An iFi employee also participates in both threads. You might find it helpful to go the the tips and tricks thread and follow the procedure for doing a full factory reset before switching from WiFi to hardwire. That way you start with a clean slate. |
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