STREAM Series Megapost

[frank7036]

Do not know yet. Will decide after listening to the Audio Note gear.

Sorry, I badly worded my question - I understand that if you want a module changed or installed the unit has to go back to the dealer - I was wondering if they had mentioned whether it was a case of ‘not a problem, when it arrives we can install while you wait” or is it “drop it off and we will do in a short time and ring you” scenario?
Cheers.

 

[Stephen Healy]

Thank you Stephen for a welcome clarification of the new model line-up, what’s on offer and why. Big job to get that down in digital print, congrats.
I noticed the comment about faster Ethernet ports using faster switches - can you comment on what Innuos perceive as the gain to sound reproduction from this adaptation?
As I understand it the PheonixNET switch was deliberately designed to use 100Mb.

This one is a little less to do with sound and more to do with very fast transfer rates especially on NAS imports or NAS backups. Keep in mind, all your other network devices need to support 2.5gbe which at the moment is pretty rare at the moment. You would only have this if you specifically invested in it throughout your network, otherwise the ports on the STREAM series will only operate at the speed that it is linked to (which most of the time is going to be gigabit).

The PhoenixNET indeed has 100mb due to the simpler chip we are using - and part of the reason for using that cheap is its lower power consumption and the fact it can be powered by an external linear power rail which is actually very rare.
One idea we did have, and it would be interesting to gauge feedback on this, would be that on a software level we could add something in settings where you could actually set the operating speed of the Ethernet port. So, we could have 'audio mode' that throttles to 100mb, a 'speed mode' which enabled 2.5gbe, or a 'balanced mode' that runs at gigabit. You could change these on the fly depending on whether you doing data transfer, or doing critical listening etc.