Hello everyone. My first post!
I am running the trial of Audirvana 3.2.5 on a MacBook Pro (OS 10.13.3) into my DNLA device (Naim ND5-XS network streamer) over my home network. My main reason for doing this is so that I can use Qobuz, which Naim does not support.
I originally tried connecting over wifi which worked until I tried playing hires FLACs, when there was a lot of quite severe dropout from music stored on my Synology NAS. This wasn’t surprising as the same thing happened before I used Audirvana. So I tried connecting the MacBook to the network via ethernet over mains (powerline). This will work with the Synology streaming directly to the Naim streamer; hires files up to 24/192 will play without any problem. Sadly this is not the case when playing via Audirvana - I still get the same dropouts as I did when playing over wifi.
I don’t really understand why this happens and I’m beginning to think it may be due to the poor general quality of powerline networks. But it works with everything I have except Audirvana! If anyone has an ideas I would be grateful to hear. At the moment it would appear that Audirvana is not going to work for me, which is a shame because it seems to work well in all other regards.
Regards to all,
Graeme