AUDIO over IP - REDNET 3 & 16 Review. AES67 Sets A New Standard for Computer Audio

[astrostar59]

  I don't have access to my PC / software. It's vital in the spanner tool to set the Output to Ch 1&2.
 
You are doing very well for a newbie it seems to me!

Thanks Iving. It says in Rednet control it says AES Input (not output) and I just set 1&2 as ticked and untucked 3-8. Is this correct?

 

[Iving]

You don't need to be concerned with Input settings for Playback

 

[Iving]

When you have an Output signal routed correctly your R3 will show an LED in a particular place corresponding with the 2 Ch plus it will change from 48kHz to 44.1kHz

 

[Golfnutz]

 
I do not have luck running Jplay as well - the latency is maybe to low on the DVS?
 
Likely HQplayer will not work - I don't believe it's ASIO compatible?  And doesn't it need a h/w handshake?

Must be something between Roon + HQPlayer.
 
HQPlayer works fine with D16. DVS even gets loaded into HQPlayer's Tools menu.

 

[astrostar59]

  When you have an Output signal routed correctly your R3 will show an LED in a particular place corresponding with the 2 Ch plus it will change from 48kHz to 44.1kHz

Ok, got it working. I got Sweetwater to do a remote access and fiddle with my Mac Mini all the way from the States to Spain! BTW fantastic service by Sweetwater, I would definitely say buy from those guys.

 

[Iving]

 
Ok, got it working. I got Sweetwater to do a remote access and fiddle with my Mac Mini all the way from the States to Spain! BTW fantastic service by Sweetwater, I would definitely say buy from those guys.

 
Nice astro!
 
And ... ?

 

[artur9]

Anyone using RedNet for input?  Like to record from a turntable to a PC?

 

[rb2013]

Must be something between Roon + HQPlayer.

HQPlayer works fine with D16. DVS even gets loaded into HQPlayer's Tools menu.

Good to hear.

 

[rb2013]

Anyone using RedNet for input?  Like to record from a turntable to a PC?

The Rednets have digital inputs, but you‘d still need a ADC.

 

[occamsrazor]

Heads up, mini Dante enabled dac coming for $200 with balanced xlr out. Amphenol makes it and it's all super interesting. 48v Poe injection required

 
Are you talking about this one?
 
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1266502-REG/amphenol_rjd1212_0050_amphe_dante_rj45_audio_adapter.html
http://www.amphenolaudio.com/products/dante/adapter/amphe-dante/
 
Presumably that is based on this:
 
https://www.audinate.com/products/manufacturer-products/dante-analog-output-module
 
...so limited to 96khz and we don't know the DAC used, but seems unlikely to be very high quality.
 
What I and I think many others are hoping for is an Audinate Brooklyn II card based box with SPDIF/AES and i2s outputs, something similar to Singxer SU-1 but Dante-enabled. While there may indeed be technical advantages to having the Dante card internally in the DAC, as in the Burl B2, the external interface route would offer the most flexibility.
 
Also I see no technical reason why to limit to 192khz... given that Brooklyn II can do 16 channels of 192khz.
 
I'd love to see Focusrite bring out a half-width 1U "Rednet Mini" type stereo device like the AM2 but with the Brooklyn II card. Has anyone asked them? If so was there any interest by them?

 

[Iving]

   
I'd love to see Focusrite bring out a half-width 1U "Rednet Mini" type stereo device like the AM2 but with the Brooklyn II card. Has anyone asked them? If so was there any interest by them?

 
The UK technical support and sales guys were informed about this thread quite some months ago (and were given contact info for a small number of key contributors). Whether there is any interest on the company's part in creating an audiophile product seems known only to them. But they are very cool people, and you never know when the right communication could land on the right desk at the right time: http://focusriteplc.com/management

 

[rb2013]

   
Are you talking about this one?
 
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1266502-REG/amphenol_rjd1212_0050_amphe_dante_rj45_audio_adapter.html
http://www.amphenolaudio.com/products/dante/adapter/amphe-dante/
 
Presumably that is based on this:
 
https://www.audinate.com/products/manufacturer-products/dante-analog-output-module
 
...so limited to 96khz and we don't know the DAC used, but seems unlikely to be very high quality.
 
What I and I think many others are hoping for is an Audinate Brooklyn II card based box with SPDIF/AES and i2s outputs, something similar to Singxer SU-1 but Dante-enabled. While there may indeed be technical advantages to having the Dante card internally in the DAC, as in the Burl B2, the external interface route would offer the most flexibility.
 
Also I see no technical reason why to limit to 192khz... given that Brooklyn II can do 16 channels of 192khz.
 
I'd love to see Focusrite bring out a half-width 1U "Rednet Mini" type stereo device like the AM2 but with the Brooklyn II card. Has anyone asked them? If so was there any interest by them?

How about a device that runs 192kHz for each channel - so doubling the Dante throughput to 384k.  Seems possible even at a board level implementation.

 

[rb2013]

   
The UK technical support and sales guys were informed about this thread quite some months ago (and were given contact info for a small number of key contributors). Whether there is any interest on the company's part in creating an audiophile product seems known only to them. But they are very cool people, and you never know when the right communication could land on the right desk at the right time: http://focusriteplc.com/management

If not them - then someone else.  I know of at least two other companies working on this.

 

[rb2013]

Lynx now joins the Dante family...
 

The LT-DANTE LSlot card can be installed into any existing Hilo or Aurora with an easy and free firmware update. In addition, Lynx is making Dante-equipped Aurora and Hilo models available at the same time. These models are:

1. Hilo-DNT in Black and Silver
2. Aurora 16-DNT
3. Aurora 8-DNT

 
http://www.lynxstudio.com/product_detail.asp?i=2#
 
The BURL now has some serious competition:
http://www.proaudiola.com/mobile/Product.aspx?ProductCode=LYNX-HILO-DT-SILVER
 
Pictures are of the USB verison - I guess the Dante Ethernet photos are not ready yet for their website.

 
 

 

 
Available Dec 2016 -  I already have one on pre-order.
 
SPDIF and AES digital output - AND a DAC and an ADC - DC Battery power pack available.  Quality HP output.
 
Lynx has a reputation for making excellent SQ audio.
 
$2499 LSlot version, $2699 with Dante built in.
 
http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/lynx-hilo
 

 

[rb2013]

During the years that J. Gordon Holt and I made recordings together he often complained about the lack of “pro” audio gear being reviewed in consumer audio publications. Many times he found a particular piece of gear that he wanted to review, but because it was sold and marketed principally to professional audio engineers, it was deemed by his editors to be inappropriate. He found this so irritating that he didn’t write as many reviews in his later years as he might have, if given freer rein. Gordon’s last reference speakers, the ATC SC- 40s, were just such a “prosumer” product. 

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/three-new-dsd-capable-dacs/
 

Flash forward ten years; computer audio has reduced the gap between pro and consumer gear to the point where they are almost interchangeable. This convergence of current-generation consumer and pro gear is a result of parallel technical paths. The latest computer-audio pro and consumer products employ the same DACs, software/firmware solutions, and circuit-topology concepts. Nowadays differences in input/output options, routing flexibility, and cosmetics have become the primary differentiators separating pro from consumer devices.