Tagged: network audio

Multiroom dropouts are rarely your Wi-Fi. Here's why DNS resolution quietly breaks streaming apps, and how to fix it for good.

A $150,000 reference system is only as good as the worst-sounding zone it's networked to. Here's why multiroom integration is the statement system's real weak point.

A full four-room multiroom build around WiiM streamers, done properly, for less than the cost of one premium ecosystem speaker.

Statement systems live or die on the last metre of cable. Here's why even six-figure hi-fi rooms lean on unglamorous streaming boxes to get the multiroom bit right.

A client once asked me to fit a $1,200 network switch into his rack. Here's what a switch can and can't change about digital audio, and where the money's better spent.

Every multiroom install has a zone that never quite matches the others for loudness. Here's what actually causes it and the fixes that hold.

Multiroom streaming almost never sends bit-perfect audio to every zone. Here's what resampling and format conversion actually do to the signal, and when it matters.

NAS, local rip or a streaming service subscription — does storage location change what hits your DAC? I pulled the signal path apart to find out.

Running different music in every room isn't a firmware bug — it's how multiroom actually gets used. Here's how to set it up so it stays reliable.

Same track, same app, different loudness in every room. Here's the actual engineering reason multiroom volume matching fails, and how to fix it properly.

Multiroom systems are built around speakers in rooms. Here's how to get a proper headphone zone out of the same network, without losing resolution.

Most multiroom systems treat every zone as an afterthought. Here's how to build secondary zones that respect the investment you've made in your primary system.

Priya Anand spent years dismissing streamers as beside the point. Here's what changed her mind — and what a good digital source actually does for a valve-based system.

Roon, Linn Kazoo and Lumin each promise to be the centre of a serious streaming system. Sofia Laurent breaks down what each actually delivers — and what they cost you.

Multiroom audio and high-end source quality rarely coexist well. Here's how to architect a system where every zone gets the signal it deserves.

Marcus Vale runs the measurements and the logic on whether a physical Ethernet connection genuinely improves streaming audio quality over Wi-Fi — or if it's mostly folklore.

Network audio clocking decides how much jitter reaches your DAC. Marcus Vale explains the causes, how to measure it, and which fixes actually work.

Roon, UPnP or a manufacturer's app: which streaming protocol sounds best? Theo Mensah explains what each does and what really changes the sound.