Stream 3 to dCS Vivaldi upsampler

[Antonios]

Is it enough to connect the Stream 3 to a Nordost Qnet switch-on which a dCS Vivaldi upsampler and a Melco N5 library are also connected-to stream music from those two devices? Or should I also connect the usb output of the Innuos to the upsampler as well?

 

[Stephen Healy]

Hi Antonios, yes you would need to connect the STREAM3 by USB to the Vivaldi Upsampler so that it has a direct audio output, Ethernet alone would not be enough in this sense. You have potentially two server-streamers available to you there with the Melco as well, but you could defer the Melco to being Storage only and have the STREAM3 read from it, then output to the dCS. That would make most sense in the context of what you describe.

 

[Antonios]

Correction: I want to stream from the Melco music library and from my Tidal account

 

[Antonios]

Hi Antonios, yes you would need to connect the STREAM3 by USB to the Vivaldi Upsampler so that it has a direct audio output, Ethernet alone would not be enough in this sense. You have potentially two server-streamers available to you there with the Melco as well, but you could defer the Melco to being Storage only and have the STREAM3 read from it, then output to the dCS. That would make most sense in the context of what you describe.

Thank you. So there is no way to have the Stream 3 to work with ethernet connection alone,correct?

 

[Stephen Healy]

Thank you. So there is no way to have the Stream 3 to work with ethernet connection alone,correct?

Correct - SenseUPnP would technically allow this but I would not rely on that exclusively. Alternatively, run the STREAM3 as a Roon Core and have it function essentially just as a controller.
I'd expect you to get the best performance by having your TIDAL account added to Sense on the STREAM3, have it monitor the Melco as a NAS share, and stream out via USB into the dCS.

 

[Antonios]

Correct - SenseUPnP would technically allow this but I would not rely on that exclusively. Alternatively, run the STREAM3 as a Roon Core and have it function essentially just as a controller.
I'd expect you to get the best performance by having your TIDAL account added to Sense on the STREAM3, have it monitor the Melco as a NAS share, and stream out via USB into the dCS.

you see, I want to compare the build-in streamer of the dCS to the Stream 3