v2k wrote: > I don't think you are coming back but I have gear worth about 1500, > does that qualify me to answer? Anyway, for anyone else coming this way > wondering the same thing, what do you think Spotify, Tidal, Qubuz etc > use for storage, the cheapest they can get their hands on or custom made > audiophile hard drives? If they use CAT8 cables it is because they need > the bandwidth, nothing else. The reason the world has gone digital is > that it is robust and cheap, audio included. Now this doesn't take away > from the joy of owning nice stuff but that is another topic. > > The poor horse is dead but I can't help myself, if three different > transports feeding the same DAC from the same CD sound different I'd say > there is something wrong with two of them.
I also wondered where the £/$ value was set in the OPs mind. Around the house I probably have in excess of £3k's worth of kit in various rooms but my LMS storage is ancient - probably more than 10 years old. I'm running LMS on an 8Gb HP Microserver with a single SSD for OS and db but the storage is on a 4 disk QNAP TS419 Raid 5 via NFS. I also have a Pi3 pCP development server connected to the same same NAS with the same mount point. Between the LMS servers and my Players there is at least one gigabit switch and in some cases two plus of course a whole host of Cat5/Cat5e cabling and some players are connected via highish end Mesh WiFi (Draytek AP903s which work flawleesly with old SB devices by the way). Most of this infrastructure has been in place for a number of years but I haven't detected anywhere where a 1 has arrived at a DAC as anything other than a 1. 0's sound nicely rounded. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* Joggler & Pi4/Khadas -> Onkyo TXNR686 -> Celestion F20s *Office* Joggler & Pi3 -> Denon RCD N8 -> Celestion F10s *Dining Room* SB Boom *Kitchen* UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* Pi Zero+DAC ->ToppingTP21 ->AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV) & Bathroom* SB Touch ->Denon AVR ->Mordaunt Short M10s + Kef ceiling speakers *Guest Room* Joggler > Topping Amp -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes Everything controlled by iPeng & Material on iOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114616
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