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Transaction went smoothly. Great communication, very helpful. Koji is a gent. Very happy with the headphones and their condition

Has anyone done a recent comparison of the state of art sonore optical rendu / uptone etherRegen against a Rednet solution? Recently my music server went wrong and has been out of action, so I switched back in my microrendu to simply stream hqplayer from a laptop. A very full and wonderful sound...

That sounds like a good idea. Do you have a link related to the parts/kit? I've been playing with soldering recently so this sounds like something that would be fun. Thanks

Oh wow, that's a very nice dac. Admittedly I had to google it as I'd never heard of it. And it appears you're a fellow Wammer. The totaldac has a usb input. Not sure about the totaldac server/streamer as I don't have that. I'm trying to avoid upgraditis (2 years and counting...) For now, Rednet...

Interesting. What's your new/old dac? I've compared the rednet setup with the usb input on my previous Vitus rd100 and on my current Totaldac d1-dual and rednet was always much better.

Dante Controller software is for configuration only. To stream audio using a Dante endpoint you need either a suitable dante hardware device such as their pcie ethernet card, or their "Virtual Soundcard" software running in the background...

Occasionally my dante network seems to be undetectable. I fix it by closing the dante controller and rednet app, then using a .bat file to stop and start all the dante related services in the correct order: net stop conmon net stop DanteDiscovery net stop dvs.manager net start conmon net start...

The correct link is https://www.audinate.com/products/devices/dante-avio#aes3 Looks like a cheap way of using Dante with my bedroom hifi dac which has an aes input

It's been a while... Dante problems with the services stopping / not being able to see endpoints... I ended up leaving AO in its least invasive form. When I reinstalled windows i didn't reapply AO. No problems with dvs reinstalls. I think I've done it about 5 times. Until I got the pcie card :)

Personally I've had lots of trouble with AO and Dante/Roon stability. It did make a positive audible difference though. Worth trying out. (I also didn't like the fact that when I had trouble he essentially required me to pay more to upgrade to the latest version)

Apparently the cheap Asus Prime Z270M-Plus supports Optane with the latest bios We should probably leave this thread dedicated to dante and rednet tho!

That supermicro board looks tempting but there are some negative reviews online. I’ve had three non-asus boards and had troubles with all of them. Personally I would stick with Asus where possible

Maybe having the music files on ssd wouldn't matter so much as I use Roon & hqplayer on the os drive. The samsung pro ssd is way faster than roon/hqplayer need, so it won't cause any latency limitation. Of course the other big factor in computer audio is noise, and I can imagine if sata is...

Very cool!

So having sata disabled is the key? If you have it using Optane and no ssd or anything on sata, but still have sata enabled, then does it still sound inferior? Not sure if it's feasible for me - I use an old small factor fanless pc - I think I'd need to upgrade to a 7th gen small factor mobo...

Any chance of a photo of the optane and mobo?

An MIT oracle ma-x digital aes

In my experience on my system, the biggest improvements (in very rough decreasing order) were yielded by: - using rednet d16 - power cable upgrade to the d16 - rednet pcie card instead of other nics - psu upgrade to the pc (paul hynes) - aes cable upgrade - ethernet cable upgrade to audioquest...

On my system, whenever I've introduced the mutec +3 USB - aes in aes out, between the d16 and my Metronome/Totaldac - it made music sound artificially enhanced, more "digital". Also tried using it as a clock and using the d16 as its external clock, neither of which seemed to change the sound...

Iving, I think your reasoning is sound. One other thought is that I suspect that it would also be possible to connect the d16 secondary network card to the pc nic directly to enable the Dante or Rednet Controller app to see the d16. I haven’t tested this because I use Roon and because I need...

Iving, I don’t see any reason your configuration won’t work. I can pull out the extra network cables from my pc and d16 and it will continue playing the track to the end and then plays the next track. I just can’t control it with Roon on my ipad. I also keep the d16 and pc on permanently- if you...

That should work well. I'm sure you'll figure it out. Just in case, I will spell it out, as I probably won't be responding to this forum quickly at the point at which you may need help.... The dante/rednet app on the audio-pc doesn't use www or ip (tcp on port 80), but it does a network scan...

The difference I'm referring to between using the rednet pcie card and a normal card, is that the rednet card cannot be used for anything apart from dante duties - it won't function as a (normal) ethernet card, so you can't use the d16 feature to act as an ethernet adapter. Iving, in your...

Great, I hope you enjoy the sound improvement as much as I did. I did have some trouble getting it set up. The latest firmware is necessary (install from the Rednet app). It can work direct to the d16, the only catch I found is that I needed both ends connected via ethernet so that they could...