21-Jul-2015, 22:01
Hi Rufus
I don't use a Devialet, sacrilege i know, but a Vitus amp. I have a Synology NAS which is running Minimserver. To be honest im not sure how i set it up but it was streaming music from the NAS so the Melco was acting in renderer mode. The Melco was connected to a Hugo TT DAC via USB, then from TT to amp via XLR cables.
I copied some albums direct to the Melco HDD for comparison, but I couldn't really tell, with any certainty, if this sounded any better. Marginal if at all.
Just to add the Aurender was directly swapped with the Melco keeping all cables the same. The only difference is the Aurender accesses the files directly on the NAS, no Minimserver. Also no transcoding was set on Minimserver.
Hope that helps to clarify
Graeme
I don't use a Devialet, sacrilege i know, but a Vitus amp. I have a Synology NAS which is running Minimserver. To be honest im not sure how i set it up but it was streaming music from the NAS so the Melco was acting in renderer mode. The Melco was connected to a Hugo TT DAC via USB, then from TT to amp via XLR cables.
I copied some albums direct to the Melco HDD for comparison, but I couldn't really tell, with any certainty, if this sounded any better. Marginal if at all.
Just to add the Aurender was directly swapped with the Melco keeping all cables the same. The only difference is the Aurender accesses the files directly on the NAS, no Minimserver. Also no transcoding was set on Minimserver.
Hope that helps to clarify
Graeme