Two weeks later, "our engineer Zhen Zhang is ready to do the TeamViewer session for Windows. The Windows machine is just to use the remote controller app VitOS Manager which then controls the Z1+ to install DLNA Renderer and Orbiter Plugin." When Zhen logged into my Win10/64 desktop, he downloaded Duodian's Nox Player. Once installed, this Android Emulator took far longer to open than Photoshop. Zhen then kept failing to open the unzipped VitOS Manager & Orbiter apps from within Android to establish the virtual network required to access my Z1+ loaner. He kept checking Task Manager's performance window to watch my CPU usage and why Nox was so lethargic. He then tried to install an alternate Android Emulator. However, I'd already seen how my malware program blocked access to a website he tried to download a driver from because it detected a Trojan. Now I saw that it auto-quarantined other apps he tried to run as "undesirable programs". So I terminated the ½-hour TeamViewer session and informed Chorus and Zhen that I wasn't comfortable to proceed. I'd either need a new deck with the necessary DLNA Renderer pre-installed; or my current sample returned and retrofitted.

Four days later Chorus was back. "Our engineer reports that your Windows PC cannot run the emulator smoothly. We're investigating another solution that will make your mobile access the wired Ethernet network. Please provide the brand and model of your mobile phone." A month after the original TeamViewer session, "we're shipping you an Oppo mobile phone plus cable connector tomorrow". My low-rent Samsung mobile apparently wasn't fit for purpose. I had to give it to Silent Angel. They were stoic about solving my issue without falling back on the easier return option. That boded well for paying clients hitting snags not already covered in the maker's bag of tricks. It's another reason why I covered this otherwise tedious detour.

When my Taiwanese care package arrived, it was a snap to follow the detailed instructions to access my Qobuz Sublime subscription from their network-hardwired Oppo phone to route the incoming stream through the Z1+ into my usual Singxer SU-6 USB bridge; or access my external SSD library. Downscaling a 27" iMac display to smartphone size obviously gave up nav glam whilst having to be on the network even for local files wasn't my preferred MO.

Here we see the Rhein Z1+ preceded by fibre-optic cascaded LAN distributors. Adding the external Genesis clock was my next step. First I had to get my feet wet with just the server.