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Alekz · 30-12-2012, 19:07

Simon (or John Ma) could you please shorten the title of the original post? It's too long to quick responces. Thanks!

simoncn · 30-12-2012, 21:30

(30-12-2012 19:07)Alekz Wrote: Simon (or John Ma) could you please shorten the title of the original post? It's too long to quick responces. Thanks!

Done.

Mike48 · (This post was last modified: 31-12-2012 19:10 by Mike48.)

(27-12-2012 23:17)Alekz Wrote: OK, so it's the PWD then. Rygel to be more precise.

Alek, my inference is that the PWD+Bridge lacks hardware support for gapless playback. That seems to need more processing power, or memory, or something else, than the current Bridge has. PS Audio is able to achieve gapless playback in some cases through its own EMM server by doing software tricks, but they are not generalizable to other servers. Hope that helps.

Mike

P.S. I find that the only disappointment with my PWD+Bridge combo.

bbrip · 31-12-2012, 19:56

well, lack of gapless playback would be a total killer for me for any Dac or streaming product, however good it may sound.

simoncn · 31-12-2012, 21:13

(31-12-2012 19:56)bbrip Wrote: well, lack of gapless playback would be a total killer for me for any Dac or streaming product, however good it may sound.

+1. I have many classical albums that depend on this. Linn has got this right by producing a renderer that provides gapless playback with any UPnP server. It's unfortunate that PS Audio chose a different approach.

Dieter Stockert · 01-01-2013, 00:19

(31-12-2012 19:56)bbrip Wrote: well, lack of gapless playback would be a total killer for me for any Dac or streaming product, however good it may sound.

+1. Absolutely.

Mike48 · (This post was last modified: 01-01-2013 00:30 by Mike48.)

(31-12-2012 21:13)simoncn Wrote: +1. I have many classical albums that depend on [gapless playback]. Linn has got this right by producing a renderer that provides gapless playback with any UPnP server. It's unfortunate that PS Audio chose a different approach.

I own the PS Audio DAC, and I too agree. It is a very musical device with a real problem. The company is working on a software solution, supposed to be delivered early 2013. Of course owners are curious how it will turn out. I have to admit, it never occurred to me that any well-known company would design a network product that would NOT do gapless, in this day and age. Now that it's obvious they have, it still boggles my mind.

Mike

Alekz · (This post was last modified: 01-01-2013 04:00 by Alekz.)

And I do not understand why neither the server nor the renderer part was fixed. They had 4 years!!!

bbrip · (This post was last modified: 01-01-2013 11:32 by bbrip.)

The smartest think they could - or better should - do is to adapt the Linn UPnP extensions rather than fiddle with their own mediocre "solutions". They are open standard and therefore readily available.

Maybe a few of you PS users should put some pressure.on those guys.

Alekz · 01-01-2013, 13:40

I've been trying for years to no avail. Paul is "still not convinced, that they should go this way".