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Hi,

Would like to purchase Auralic Aries G1 as the steamer for my BL18 via Toslink, I read through the user manual of Aries G1, seems like it has volume control function(I guess it is done via software instead of hardware) on its IOS App, have you tried on this function? Will it work properly(adjusting volume on BL18) with this setup? And will this ‘Software’ volume adjustment do harms on sound quality?(According to the manual this should be switched off when there is a volume control function on DAC and/or Pre-Amp)

Thanks.

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Hi,

The Deezer build-in steaming works fine in B&O App(verison: 4.8.023….) on my IOS(16.4.1), hope you have also resloved this issue?

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Hi geoffmartin,

Thanks a lot for your really detailed answer,  the noise floor part and word length part reminds me of one article in your personal blog, which further reminds me of some lessons learnt during my college time 🙂

BTW, I was given a demo of Beolab18&28 by a B&O dealer yesterday, which was supposing to help me deciding which one to go replacing my Beosound2 mk1, but I have left with empty hands, because I did no hear significant differences between Beosound2 and Beolab18(when comes to music playback), I think it was partly due to you and your team has built Beosound2 so great, and of course the other reason was I can’t hear the diffs. 🙂

It was a big day for money saving 🙂

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Hi geoffmartin,

Thanks! BTW,  any diff wrt sound quality between Wired(Powerlink) and Wireless(WiSA), thanks.

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Morning greetings! Have been putting a lot of time reading/studying through articles on your blogger today 🙂

When talking about ears are untrustworthy, do you think different power cable will make BS2 sound differently, since I seemed to notice some differences(better sound quality, meaning punchier Bass and brighter Highs) by switching the power cable from BS2 original to AudioQuest NRG-X2 🙂

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Gottcha, thanks a lot! Wish you a nice day!

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@geoffmartin, to me the Apple Music Lossless via Airplay from iphone13 to BS2 sounds a bit blurry to me in comparison to Wired through DAC+Pre-amp, it might be the issues described in the page provided by Stan wrt Bit Perfect issue over Airplay(https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-and-bytes/apple-music-lossless-mess-part-2-airplay-r1026/), my BS2 is a 2017 made version, not sure it is a Airplay1 or Airplay2 version.

The easiest way to examine whether it is due to Bit In-perfect issue over Airplay is to compare the sound(still objectively since i only have my ears :)) between Build-in Deezer steaming over WIFI and Deezer app on Iphone13 over Airplay 🙂

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Hi Stan,

Thanks for your reply and the link provided 🙂

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Hi geoffmartin,

Thanks a lot for your answer, that is a lot to digest, the diffs I noticed between Line-in and Airplay might be too objective or an effect of my brain filters 🙂

 

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Hi Stan,

Thanks for your reply, it is very informative, one follow-up question: do you think BS2 is also a ‘Digital’ speaker that will do similar things(Analog to Digital conversion) on its 3.5mm mini-jack line-in socket? My experiment has delivered better sound quality a bit(crisper highs, firm brass, broader sound stage) with external DAC+Pre-amp compare to Airplay to BS2. Do you think it is due to 3.5mm line-in goes via different path(Line-in to Power-amps to Drivers) than Airplay does(Airplay to Internal DAC to Power-amps to Drivers)?

🙂

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Hi geoffmartin,

What i meant ‘BS2’ is actually ‘Beosound 2’ 🙂

I am using SMSL M500 Mk2 DAC + Topping Pre-90 for this experiment 😉

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