Yeah, the tax inspector told me the exact same thing once and that wasn't good news lol.
As far as your question is concerned, are you talking in general (when all works OK in Dirac) or specifically for this "imprecise measurements" situation?
I find that when all measurement points are (fully) successfull , the Dirac algorithm does its job as intended. This can be confirmed in REW by a before/after.
When the measurement are faulty on too many points, the REw measurements show that the correction is crap.
When just one or a few points...
Same boat here, with various Denon and Marantz, and various Umik (1 and 2), and various laptops. (I'm an installer). I personnaly own an AV10 and a Umik2, and a DLBC multisub licence, so I'm in a position where I can fully test things at home.
Not gonna go through all the various and numerous...
Yep it does, well, after a fashion at least. It's a USB port aimed at storage access, not audio input , which is, I reckon, what other posters were referring to.
Well, anyway, plenty of other options to get some digital audio source in on this unit.
I do wonder in what sense NEtwork ability would make up for a missing USB. What are we talking about here? USB for control/setup/automation?
Well in that case there's well enough that can be made through other interfaces (amongst which network interfaces which you mentionned)
If it's USB audio...
I don't agree! There are a couple of pictures up there, where I can spot a few specs of dust. Come on dude, how are is it to carry (and use!) microfiber fabric (chamoisine Monsieur) huh?
Kidding of course, when you know how hard it is to shoot in those conditions (low level and mixed...
RO(land) always TEL(ls) the truth! Even better, they, in the great Sir Robert Armstrong tradition, were "economical with the truth". Very conservative indeed.... of course ... ;-)
@VintageFlanker , well done friend, concise, comprehensive and well formulated review! Hope there's more coming...
Well, maybe not anymore. It would be way more convenient for the targeted audience if the built-in Dac actually performed adequately. Current iteration is far from great, i'll give you that...
On its way friend, just got an update this morning, our batch will be delivered first thing next week. Don't really know why the extended delay though, although I have the strange feeling it could be that someone from bluesound got a call from someone from Atoll mentioning your name LOL!!!
Well, some manufacturers seem not to care about the sacred rule, it appears, because as far as can stretch the eye on the web, there seems to be no statement from Atoll on the matter, apart from the updated product specs page that magically got updated a few hours after the review was posted...