Sorry, not respectful, to the subject, my mistake
Hmm. I moved 2 years ago and shut that down for a few months before I moved. I wonder if that thing still works for me. That PC is in a box along with the old Sony SACD player. I have not bought a SACD in years. Everyone seems to sell the files now which I love.
I wonder if I use a spare router NOT on the internet how long windows 10 will work. I could care less for any updates.
My old Sony is in a box somewhere too. I still buy SACD and I have a collection of over 500 SACDs so I am not planning to rip all of them. I am too busy to do that!
But I may try a few just to see if the program still work.
Now I have PMG SACD T. and will buy a PMG 512 soon, I am not eager to start ripping SACD anyway. I mean, the main reason I buy the above mentioned PMGs is to play SACD.
It has always worked for me, although I havenât ripped SACDs in a couple of years. You have to be sure to have the correct file structure on the USB thumb drive for the 105, and have a specific IP address for the 105 to access it. (I uses static DHCP on my network, so the same MAC addresses are assigned the same IP addresses using DHCP.)
And of course, having the right software on the computer. I use an older version of everything, but it works fine, and Iâm not going to upset the apple cart. 
I agree with @Paul. 
The way TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) works, no amount of filtering or âpurifyingâ will change the data. There is no such thing as âjitterâ in TCP, for instance. The connection is almost irrelevant. As long as the data arrives without error, thatâs all we need.
I wonât get into a full semesterâs worth of basic networking concepts, the OSI model, etc., but a grossly simplified version of the networking function is that the data is sent in packets from its source, and arrives in packets at the end device (in this case, the AirLens). Checksums are used to make certain the packets arrive intact. If not, the end device requests the packet be sent again until it receives one intact. Once each packet arrives, a header on each packet makes certain the packets are assembled in order, and the receiving device (the AirLens) buffers the packets in sequence until they are needed. When the device is ready to process the next packet in line, the buffer is ready to deliver it.
Monitoring an Ethernet connection, I very rarely ever see an error where a packet is sent a second time due to error. (Some networking equipment can tally the number of packets sent/received on each port, and how many of those packets were sent in error.)
The AirLens gets rid of the weakness of EMI/RFI garbage traveling along the Ethernet cabling by galvanically isolating it.
Your experience ripping DSD files is completely consistent with mine. For me the breakthrough came with getting ChatGPT to edit my Apple terminal commands to allow the ARM Mac to run the intel-based sacd_extract program. I have successfully ripped close to 100 sacdâs to date. I have also purchased several native DSD256 titles from HDTT, Bluecoast and Octave and they sound amazing. I happen to have a direct to disc vinyl recording, Misty by Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio, as well as the direct to DSD256 native recording of the same performance. I have always felt that D2D vinyl recordings were the epitome of vinyl music playback and I have a nice collection of D2D records. However, I am floored by how good the DSD256 sounds and a bake off of the D2D LP vs DSD256 in my optimised network setup for me demonstrates how close they are in sound quality. There are sound quality merits to both formats and it is difficult for me to choose a clear winner here. Iâd love to hear if there are any other titles that allow for this sort of comparison. Paul has mentioned in his videos that Octave are considering their own LP mastering and even potentially D2D recording. This would be fantastic if it happens.
What are you using to read the SACD .dsf layers of the discs (what spins and scans them)?
Another reason I donât stream. Besides all the headaches associated with streaming, playing discs will ultimately sound better. If I had both streaming and disc options available to me, I know Iâd always choose the better sounding option, so why bother with streaming.
All things being equal, it comes down to the recording quality and âmusicalityâ of the record in my experience.
Since I donât own all the music I like and there are versions of some that I do own available through on line sources that I like more, I consider streaming to be an important source of musical enjoyment.
I also like to make playlists to listen to music I own and have âdigitizedâ. Streaming allows you to create the ultimate mix tape like back in the day.
FWIW.
Like Scotte said, streaming gives me access to vast unknown artists, and I really likes the feature to be able to add favorite albums and tracks into playlists. I can play them in Parties for an entire day while I am grilling!
It also helps me to buy streaming downloads whether they are in hi-resolution or not. Often âCDâ quality is better as many know the recording source is more important.
The funny thing is streaming did not decrease my purchase of SACDs. In fact, I bought close to 100 SACDs per year three year in a row as the result of finding more albums from streaming.
In terms of SQ, with the latest PMG512 and SACD combo, I find SACD sounds a little better (more presence), but streaming is not far behind. Frankly most of the time they sounded the same.
I am happy to have both, and the rest of family can listen to whatever they like in streaming without me buying any CDs for my wife (younger daughter laugh that I still buy discs). 
Guess I forgot to mention, I do stream on a potable Bluetooth speaker, as a way to get access to a wider variety of music. If I hear something I like, I buy the disc. Being able to set up playlists on the HiFi rig would be a bonus though.
This^
I have purchased more CDs and SACDs in the last five years than I have in the previous 15 years.
Hi Scotte1, I am using an old Sony BluRay Disc player (BDP-S390)-I included more detail in the earlier reply to dchang05.
For my optimised streaming setup at least (admittedly using an old PS Audio PWT for discs) the streaming is at least as good as the PWT playing CDs and to me offers better sound quality when streaming HiRes files. The DSD rips in particular sound excellent and beat HiRes PCM files via the PWT in my opinion. Interestingly, I also now prefer streaming of the DSD64 file since to me it sounds slightly better than playing a DSD64 file on a DVD disc as a DoP file through the PWT (see earlier post). This was a surprise to me but I put it down to the PWT decoding the DoP files on the fly. A bit like the argument that wav files sound a bit better than FLAC due to the need to decompress on the fly.