Hi All,
Looking for help identifying some options for a new squeezelite player for my set-up. My current config is in signature (Vortexbox with SOtM USB connected to Oppo DAC, audiophile quality pre-amp & active speakers, etc, plus a SBT in a seperate room with small bookshelf actives, and multiple iPhones & iPads (with iPeng) incl. playback via this to Bluetooth headphones) - so a mix of one main audiophile set-up and some peripheral more conventional players.
So I am looking at replacing my home built VBX server with a dedicated (QNAP) slim/silent multimedia type NAS which will run QLogitechMediaServer, hold the library files and will be in my hi-fi rack. However I will need a stand-alone player to connect to the existing DAC via asynchronous USB.
So my question is what are some good suggestions for reasonably good to high quality hardware players?
• Needs to have very good USB output, not a cheap consumer PC USB interface (I put the SOtM USB card originally in my server when I built it specifically to ensure clean digital bit-perfect transfer to the DAC).
• Needs to support Native DSD (at least double/DSD128) as I have enough DSD material in my library to not want to die sample to LPCM (which I currently do for my SBT).
At this stage I'm looking at the following - but assume there must also be some alternative more cost effective options (e.g. such as high-end Raspberry Pi systems or similar NUCs). Can anyone suggest other options with above criteria and/or share there experiences with these or similar:
• SOtM sMS-200 Neo / sMS-200ultra Neo
• Sonore microRendu / ultraRendu
I've looked back through the most recent threads here recently and closest related one I could find was "New to Raspberry Pi - SBT, NAS, LMS question" which is similar area of enquiry but doesn't directly cover above subject (but will keep searching back through the older archives).
Many TIA
Looking for help identifying some options for a new squeezelite player for my set-up. My current config is in signature (Vortexbox with SOtM USB connected to Oppo DAC, audiophile quality pre-amp & active speakers, etc, plus a SBT in a seperate room with small bookshelf actives, and multiple iPhones & iPads (with iPeng) incl. playback via this to Bluetooth headphones) - so a mix of one main audiophile set-up and some peripheral more conventional players.
So I am looking at replacing my home built VBX server with a dedicated (QNAP) slim/silent multimedia type NAS which will run QLogitechMediaServer, hold the library files and will be in my hi-fi rack. However I will need a stand-alone player to connect to the existing DAC via asynchronous USB.
So my question is what are some good suggestions for reasonably good to high quality hardware players?
• Needs to have very good USB output, not a cheap consumer PC USB interface (I put the SOtM USB card originally in my server when I built it specifically to ensure clean digital bit-perfect transfer to the DAC).
• Needs to support Native DSD (at least double/DSD128) as I have enough DSD material in my library to not want to die sample to LPCM (which I currently do for my SBT).
At this stage I'm looking at the following - but assume there must also be some alternative more cost effective options (e.g. such as high-end Raspberry Pi systems or similar NUCs). Can anyone suggest other options with above criteria and/or share there experiences with these or similar:
• SOtM sMS-200 Neo / sMS-200ultra Neo
• Sonore microRendu / ultraRendu
I've looked back through the most recent threads here recently and closest related one I could find was "New to Raspberry Pi - SBT, NAS, LMS question" which is similar area of enquiry but doesn't directly cover above subject (but will keep searching back through the older archives).
Many TIA