I haven't heard of Stream-9-9 not being able to handle 192K for local network streaming
Well you have heard of me.
I was going to post details of all the tests I have performed but decided that was going to be a very long and very boring post so I won't do that, I am just going to post the final result.
That result is that unfortunately I was not able to stream 24 bit 192 KHz reliably to the Stream-9 when used as a DLNA renderer.
The best I could get was streaming FLAC at 24 bit 192 KHz in gapless mode. During the final 5 hour test session there was only 1 glitch, at around 3 hours when there was a half a second pause. When disrupting the flow of the playlist by skipping ahead there are lots of clicks during the first 15 seconds of the track skipped to.
When streamin WAV there are half a second pauses several times an hour and the clicks after skipping take a lot longer to disappear.
When streaming in non gapless mode there are clicks at the beginning (FLAC) or during most (WAV) of each track.
1 glitch in 5 hours is just not good enough, there should be none.
When I first encountered the half a second pause over two weeks ago while streaming a local album at 32 bit 88.2 KHz I got a new (much cheaper) streamer to compare with and that streamer has performed flawlessly during every test I performed over the last 2 weeks.
When comparing the sound quality the new streamer using it's internal DAC sounds excellent but just a touch cooler than the Stream-9 DAC-9 combination. Also using the internal DAC (ESS-Sabre) there are no problems with sample-rate changes, no missing fragments.
When used with the DAC-9 the new streamer sounds exactly the same as the Stream-9 (and has the same problems with sample-rate changes)
So where does this leave the Stream-9 in my situation?
As I already have it I may just aswell use it so when playing 1 or more complete albums from my local library at 44.1 KHz I use the Stream-9. For uses involving sample-rates other then 44.1 KHz I use the new streamer either using the internal DAC or the DAC-9.