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Clicks and sound interruptions
Veniamin:
Friends,
From Brian's letter, I concluded that I poorly described the switching of my equipment. I believe that it makes sense to discuss only one question - how connected are the iMac, on which the JRiver program is located, and Teac. Other components cannot interfere with data transfer. And I get all the problems, it seems to me, precisely because of incorrect data transfer settings. In my house, a MESH system is installed as a router, to which an external Internet is connected using fiber optics. One of the nodes (transmitters) of this MESH system communicates via Wi-Fi with my iMac. The Teac is connected to the optical fiber directly through the converter with a LAN wire. Thus, I am trying to set up the transfer of music files from my computer to Teac over the Internet. I suspect that it will be better if I connect the iMac to my internal network with a wire, then the problems of transmitting via Wi-Fi from the computer to the router will be eliminated. As I understand it, it is desirable that the data from the computer pass to the Teac via the internal Network without accessing the external Internet (an analogue of wire transfer via USB connecting two devices), but I myself will not be able to make such control settings. The original Teac control program allows me to configure the connection of an external NAS, the role of which in this case would be played by my iMac. But it is minimalistic in its ability to control via a tablet connected to the Teac via Wi-Fi, so I'm trying to use JRiver. Let's first make the necessary settings while the iMac is connected to the router via Wi-Fi, and after connecting by wire, it will be possible to make adjustments that you tell.
There is one more question, the answer to which I cannot give myself. Am I sacrificing sound quality when transmitting data over the Internet instead of a direct wired connection via USB? After all, the sound quality is a priority in my case. Maybe for the sake of high-quality sound it makes sense to return to the USB connection from a separate computer that only provides music, which will stand next to the Teac and forget about the described problems with transcoding and the difficulties of the Internet connection? The answer to compare the sound quality by ear is good, but I would like to deliberately eliminate all possible problem areas in the data transmission channel. Teac NT505 is not just a DAC, but an advanced network device, which, as the Japanese developer and manufacturer declares, should provide network transport of the highest quality music signal. Let's try to do that with JRiver.
Looking forward to your response and expert advice. It is especially valuable if someone has personal experience of switching Teac with a data source.
Best regards,
Veniamin
FrostyCanada:
Hello Veniamin, thank you for reporting back.
Routers can be troublesome devices at times. :)
It really easy to test … can you please connect both your iMac and the Teac to the same “main mesh router” using LAN wire?
Hopefully your main mesh has more than 1 LAN connections.
Please test and report back,
Brian
Veniamin:
Brian, thanks.
Yes, this check suggests itself. But after all, everything worked for me without failures with MS25. It is inconvenient for me to pull all the equipment into one place. It will be easier to run a wire from the main router of the MESH system to the iMac in order to eliminate the influence of the Network. Then both Teac and iMac will be connected to the main router by wire.
By the way, how do you propose to conduct the test? Listen to whether there will be clicks and delays?
Is it possible to get recommendations for setting up the MC31 before that? Maybe it's described somewhere? I repeat that not all options for setting up the program are clear and intuitive to me.
I found on the Internet step-by-step instructions for setting up the MC20 and it helped me a lot, but it is mainly focused on connecting via USB.
You did not answer my questions-reflections on the correctness in terms of good sound to sacrifice the USB connection for the convenience of LAN connection of the computer to the Teac.
Thank you in advance.
Veniamin
bob:
--- Quote from: Veniamin on August 07, 2023, 09:54:13 am ---Brian, thanks.
Yes, this check suggests itself. But after all, everything worked for me without failures with MS25. It is inconvenient for me to pull all the equipment into one place. It will be easier to run a wire from the main router of the MESH system to the iMac in order to eliminate the influence of the Network. Then both Teac and iMac will be connected to the main router by wire.
By the way, how do you propose to conduct the test? Listen to whether there will be clicks and delays?
Is it possible to get recommendations for setting up the MC31 before that? Maybe it's described somewhere? I repeat that not all options for setting up the program are clear and intuitive to me.
I found on the Internet step-by-step instructions for setting up the MC20 and it helped me a lot, but it is mainly focused on connecting via USB.
You did not answer my questions-reflections on the correctness in terms of good sound to sacrifice the USB connection for the convenience of LAN connection of the computer to the Teac.
Thank you in advance.
Veniamin
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It's still not clear to me that you've answered Brian's question.
Are you playing to the "Player zone" using core audio or to the TEAC zone using DLNA??
FrostyCanada:
--- Quote from: bob --- It's still not clear to me that you've answered Brian's question.
Are you playing to the "Player zone" using core audio or to the TEAC zone using DLNA??
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Bob, is the following statement correct?
**If we choose our streamer = you are using DLNA
Brian
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