Is streaming 24-192 by wireless possibile?

Posted by: bicela on 01 December 2014

Dear All,

for some intricated reasons I used my Uniti2 with wireless for some time and I get some streaming drop only with flac 24-192.

I am wondering if this is due to bandwidth limit (Naim use only G wireless adapter) or to my signal not stronger enough (I use Naim WA5 antenna).

Any suggestion is welcome as direct experience.

Grazie, Maurizio

Posted on: 03 December 2014 by JSH

Depends whether this is a theoretical or musical discussion

I've never managed to get 24/192 wireless streaming here using an admittedly ordinary BT HomeHub router. I do find 24 bit audibly better than 16 bit (amazing I know!) but I don't find 24/192 noticeably better (in the gobbets it comes down in) than 24/96. I can stream 24/96 easily

For the 24/192s I did buy (waste of money over 24/96) I put them on a USB solid state drive and play faultlessly through that, though the USB input is pretty poor (but Naim don't care about that apparently)

Now some golden eared eagles among us may think they can hear the difference between the two inputs (though I wonder if they would in a proper blind test) but I can't

So I stream 24/96 and play 24/192 through the USB. It's the cheapest and most reliable approach I've found. But of course it is not sexy!

Posted on: 03 December 2014 by ChrisSU

My experience of wireless streaming is broadly similar to others here. I could stream 24/192 with no buffering as long as I used an Airport Express to pick up the signal and feed it by ethernet into my Superuniti, as the built in wifi was hopeless. BUT moving my Unitiserve close enough to connect by ethernet was a BIG improvement in sound quality, so in my view it has to be the way forward. I still connect to the internet by Wifi, but that's another matter.