Been streaming from my Synology NAS for years. Had the Odroid N2 for retro gaming purpose - but I was damn free and bored one day.
Installed dietpi on the N2 and run LMS. Had the LMS pointed to my music library on my existing NAS. It was 1) fast and 2) sq was so much better when streaming from the N2. So much that I beat myself in the head a few times to make sure that I am not imagining. Smooth and quiet - harshness gone - darker background. I had linear power supply powering both the NAS and Odroid. I concluded that streaming from a NAS for convenience sake is ok (for convenient sake). If you are going for SQ - I suggest running a dedicated machine just for music. I easily get a 20-30% bump in sq by moving LMS from the NAS to Odroid. To top it up - this Odroid N2 is many times more powerful than the pi- used very little power. I suggest to also use a linear power supply and better network cables if possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ho_kuku's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65985 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110796 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
