Update on my exploits on the very rare chance that anyone cares.
I bought the Martin Logan Unison (a different shape, but otherwise the same as the PW-LINK)
I picked up a
Douk Audio H7 with RCA & XLR inputs at Amazon Warehouse for $100
I
could take the RCA outs from the Unison to the H7, but Amir has shown the DAC is sub optimal.
I remembered I have an unused
Yulong D100 DAC/headphone AMP. It has Optical/Coax/AES/USB inputs, and XLR outputs
Powering the ProAc Tablette Eights, with ARC, it sounds lovely.
And it's tidy.
Cloud (wifi ->) Unison w/ ARC (optical ->) Yulong D100 (XLR ->) Douk Audio H7 (speaker cable ->) Proac Tablette Eights
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@amirm , I swore a bit about DTS Playfi. After finding the right magic swear words, it works great.
Using just WPS wifi connect, the Unison (and the Forte) both connect to my router. But they forget it when turned off-and on.
Using DTS PlayFi software on my PC to setup the Unison & Forte, they stay connected to wifi, even without the PC and through power cycles. "Setting up" achieves two things:
1/ It gives the router wifi password to the Unison & Forte, so they don't need to rely on WPS.
2/ It gives the opportunity to give the device a proper name instead of 03E34DC2
With the device nicely connected to the network, some other things happen.
Turns out Spotify can use PlayFi devices natively without PlayFi getting involved. And once initiated, the PC or phone or whatever can be turned off and the device continues.
(And I think Spotify can use my music library on my NAS, though I've not set it up to do so)
Anything else from the PC or phone can be sent wirelessly to the devices via PlayFi software.
I realized I have multiple PlayFi devices in the house (wasn't planned), and I can synchronise them all together using PlayFi software, but the PC or phone does need to stay on for this to work.
With the Yulong D100, I can also feed USB into the chain. Might be interesting to integrate an MS Surface Pro 5 fanless, keyboardless tablet into that.