Hmm, adding import charges, realising that buying from the US the tax
will be also added... it all adds up.
I bought Synology DiskStation because that comes with LMS. I wonder
whether I could connect the DiskStation and a DAC and play the 96/24
leaving the SB3 out completely, only using the LMS?
Jeff_G wrote:
But when I connect the DAC to the NAS I can't. I should be able to do
it, shouldn't I?
No
LMS is Server only you may can add a player to but not under a NAS with
NAS Firmware.
And no doesnt make sense.
Overkill like 96/24 and smaljoekitchen like LMS on a NAS.
Gruss
Jan
Jeff_G wrote:
I
2. Does it sound much better than the SB3?
Probably not. Digital audio conversion is basically a solved problem and
has been a solved problem at the time the SB3 was released. All properly
designed DACs should be transparent (i.e., sound the same).
Of course, in certain
dafiend wrote:
.. All properly designed DACs should be transparent (i.e., sound the
same). ..
I hope you are not including the ones provided in every computer,
smartphone or tablet as part of those. There are plenty of poorly or
cheaply designed DACs out there, then :-)
I agree that
sander wrote:
I would recommend Moose as a frontend since it has a really nice UI. I
don't think it requires admin rights to run and is a single executable
if she runs Windows.
Second this. Moose sounds exactly like what you're looking for. It's
what I want to use when I don't feel like
pablolie wrote:
I hope you are not including the ones provided in every computer,
smartphone or tablet as part of those. There are plenty of poorly or
cheaply designed DACs out there, then :-)
There exist many tiny and cheap devices which perform excellently both
objectively (as
I do not know anything about DACs.
What I know, is I tried two, Arcam irDAC and Audiolab M-DAC. I couldnt
tell any difference when my SB3 was connected to them.
However, I used to have my SB3 connected to an old NAD amplifier. When I
tried Stream Magic 6 with the old NAD, the sound was much
Jeff_G wrote:
Probably the SB Touch would be wiser choice even though the price is
double, £500 in the UK.
That I find still extremely steep.
You said you are not a techie. But you could still by one of those mini
computers pre-assembled and fully configured. For example, here's a
HiFiBerry
dafiend wrote:
... Your perceived difference in sound quality is likely a placebo
effect.
Yes, your Benchmark DAC likely measures better than many other gear, but
there's a point where differences are too small to be perceived by human
hearing.
That I decisively disagree with. I can
I've been keeping my eyes peeled for an announcement on this...
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97803-piCoPlayer-Squeezelite-on-Microcore-linux-An-embedded-OS-in-RAM-with-Squeezelitep=791739viewfull=1#post791739
With the other work I've seen on these boards where JackOfAll is
pablolie wrote:
I can hear a clear difference between the Benchmark and the Audioengine
even when I use them both exclusively as headphone amplifiers.
So when only using their analog sections?
To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this
fast-growing art of 'high
Julf wrote:
So when only using their analog sections?
The data comes into either device as a digital stream (PCM out of the
Touch for the Benchmark, USB from the computer to the AE D1), so they do
the DA conversion and -let's say for the first test- send it out to the
headphone output. Both
pablolie wrote:
I can hear a clear difference between the Benchmark and the Audioengine
even when I use them both exclusively as headphone amplifiers.
I'm not sure it's worth digging deeper into this. If I remember
correctly, the original poster didn't mention anything about headphones.
Try to build the Raspery and use an external DAC like this:
http://www.thomann.de/de/teac_ud_501_b.htm
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dafiend wrote:
I'm not sure it's worth digging deeper into this. If I remember
correctly, the original poster didn't mention anything about headphones.
your comment was a reply to mine, not to the OP.
That said, I abhor theatrical diatribe, and even though I know I can
prove my point about
serge789 wrote:
Try to build the Raspery and use an external DAC like this:
http://www.thomann.de/de/teac_ud_501_b.htm
to me the issue is... once my (significant) collection of SB devices
go why keep investing in HW if the SW component looks vulnerable? I
think I said back in 2006 that I
How about an Audiophile VortexBox?
- Plays direct to a USB DAC, Yes
- 24/192, yes
- DSD, yes
- SOtM USB card to make your DAC sound amazing, Yes
- Under $200, Nope more like $1000 but it has 1TB (or more) local
storage, CD ripping etc.
rip, tag, get cover art
All you do is insert the CD!
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