When I stream to my Naim SuperUniti from a MacBook Pro, if I click the pause button then click again to resume playback, MC restarts from the beginning of the track. If I play to the SuperUniti via core audio without using the DLNA route, pause and resume works normally. This happens both when I use the MC desktop or JRemote to control playback.
Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing? I'm using MC 21.0.31.
I set-up a friend of mine's Super Uniti 2 years ago. At that time the Naim firmware didn't support all functionality. As you know "DLNA" doesn't mean that a renderer supports all functions, its just a set of guidelines. At that time it had problems with gapless playback too, but evidently that has been resolved. AndrewFG has made a nifty program that analyses what renderers can do, and might be able to help you. I think the Naim shoudl already be in his data base but a log from the program might let him help you with the best settings - the renderer analyzer is in his siganture
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?action=profile;u=26939 I'm not an expert at all on DLNA renderers, but I know you can experiment with PCM L16 no header and PCM L24 no header instead of the default PCM24 under Audio format options for the DLNA server in the mean time maybe.
It's mostly sound quality. Core audio output is via a Toslink cable from the MacBook Pro to an optical input on the SuperUniti, and the DLNA connection sounds noticeably better, especially on higher resolution albums.
As you mentioned Hi-res albums, the Naim Toslink optical does not support over 96Khz albums. It does support up to 192kHz via SPDIF coax or BNC. So there is remedy. Other than the connection limitation, this is surprising to me, however. Especially for normal redbook PCM recordings/
My friend wanted to use his super uniti as the "renderer" too, but he had some misconceptions as I tried to explain that a bit-perfect signal is still going to go directly into the very nice NAIM dac inside. But he had his new kit and a bit of "expectation bias"
So I set up 2 zones optical and 2 zones with a coax cable to test making sure the output levels were identical. I found there was no difference, my friend found that JRiver as renderer sounded better (blind test for him). Regardless all functionality including DSPs if and when needed just worked.
Frankly there is no reason there should be a decrease in quality unless you have not set up your Output formats correctly for high rez files (under DSP studio, there should be no change for all the frequencies up to 192khz using coax, 96khz for optical -- let the NAIM handle all PCM upsampling itself; you would set JRiver to downsample to 96K or 192 for the higher frequencies depending on the connection used). I'd give JRiver another try as the renderer if I were you.
The only reason I personally would use the Naim as a renderer is if I was connecting it via ethernet to other locations or if I wanted to use the internet radio option they have on board maybe. Even if you would want to avail yourself of those occasionally, you can set up separate zones, like I did for the test - one as a DLNA renderer the other using JRiver as the Renderer. Now the only difference is that this was tested under WASAPI and Windows, but core audio is being circumvented anyways in MAC os isn't it. Anyways your choice of course. Its all about listening to the music, in anycase.
So Happy listening
Author
Topic: MC 21: Pause jumps to start of track when playing to DLNA renderer (Read 3802 times)