Roon core is a MacBook Air, mid 2015, 2.2 intel, 8 gb.
NAS is a Synology DS216j, 2TB.
NAS into netgear switch then hardwired Ethernet to bryston streamer, then usb into Vinnie Rossi LIO DAC.
It’s been pretty frustrating lately. I can’t imagine it’s my admittedly temperamental wifi signal, since the streamer is hardwired to the NAS (gutted my house last year and ran several hundred feet of cat6 ethernet cable.)
This is feeling like an “under min spec” system somehow, but there are plenty of other people running this setup that aren’t having problems.
Here’s another stick in the spoke: If I use the MacBook Air and hook up a Dragonfly to the Mac and run a set of cans to listen at night, I almost never get cutout. And That’s --definitely-- using wifi.
But when I was running macbook core and NAS to a different hardwired bryston streamer into a Schiit DAC/HPA, I would get cutouts. I figured the whole point of running miles of cat6 was that this cutout stuff would be a thing of the past.
While trying to listen to a new MQA album today (Bishop Briggs “Church of Scars” highly recommend) it cut out so often I was tempted to put a few rounds of .45 acp into the rig. Yes, I’m frustrated. 