Just as a data point. I had been using a 5m Belkin USB cable from my Core to DAC. I replaced that with an Ethernet connected CuBox-i2ex running as an NAA and a 1m USB cable (Mapleshade Clearlight). I heard a definite audible improvement, but can’t apportion it amongst the various changes.
Funny - I had a similar experience when I moved from my Cubox-i running Sqeezelite connected with an AudioQuest Forrest USB cable to the SOSE running RAAT connected with a Nordost Blue Heaven USB cable. Significant difference in SQ (particularly on high-res material!), but I can’t say which of the three changes matters. Likely a combo of all three.
As much as I love my Sonicorbiter SE, the one thing I wish would operate differently is that if I ever turn off my DAC, I have to reboot the Sonicorbiter in order for it to see the DAC as an NAA endpoint. Given that, I either need to leave the DAC on always, or I might as well just unplug the Sonicorbiter whenever I turn off the DAC.
Any fixes or ideas?
Discussion of NAA and USB disconnection here. Waiting for HQP to stop completely before disconnecting has helped some people.
This has been fixed with the latest version of NAA. In the Sonicorbiter SE web interface go in to Apps -> Software manger and click update. That will get you the latest version of everything including the new NAA.
The Sonicorbiter SE is super easy to set up and use as a Roon endpoint. I recently made a change to my system and try to send audio to it from Dirac Live - but the Dirac Audio Processor does not allow me choose the Sonicorbiter from the drop down menu.
Is this expected behavior? If so is there a workaround?
The Sonicorbiter SE supports many protocols for network audio. Roon, DLNA, NAA are all supported. I don’t think Dirac Live supports these does it?
I will look into it - but I don’t think it does. When I asked the question I think I was hoping against hope - because Dirac was so easy to set up to my NAD integrated via USB.
Thanks for the quick response. Thinking of buying a second Sonicorbiter very soon.
I don’t use Dirac but I use Acourate which is similar. Acourate only outputs to ASIO driver, so I think the selections you are seeing in the Dirac drop down box are probably the ASIO drivers installed on your PC or the devices setup in your Midi Output if you are using MAC. These will only work via USB.