(09-Nov-2015, 21:10)rjalder Wrote: I am new to this, just got my pc music to play through Ethernet connection to dialog to stereo phantoms, all Ethernet connected. Network is from router/modem to a gigabit switch (not managed) then Ethernet single runs to all devices from there ..... Dialog, Phantoms, computers, (soon Apple TV). Seems to work so far first with tidal streaming music set up in SPARK on an iPad. Now, music from pc works.
With this setup, it seems to me, the computer is the music server. This is good as I can access my computer music files. Can you please discuss a bit the benefits of going to Eg MINIMSERVER over the network? I don't know what this is and why go to it, or what NAS stands for or what UPNP and DNLA server is. Is this streaming audio similar to what is posible now, e.g. TIDAL. But maybe this is not what you mean?
As far as USB audio coming first, would that be a better way to connect my pc (Or ?) to dialog than Ethernet? Thank you for deepening perspective.
You can do more with a dedicated server than your desktop. For example, you can save a lot more music. Desktops have very limited SATA connectors. Servers can use 4-10 hard disks and run them in RAID. Your archive will go up in smoke if something happens to your desktop. Your files will be better protected against disk failures, viruses etc on server. Servers are usually online when you need them but desktops needs to wake up to serve music/video etc. If you are receiving music through network, you will bypass soundcard and related noises.
Remote >> 2x Silver Phantoms << Eth << Dialog UPNP << JRiver MediaCenter 24 - Ubuntu 18.04 x64 [VMWare] << File server - Windows 10 x64 [Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F, Xeon E3-1425 v5, 46 Tb, 16Gb DDR4 ECC] * Spark is only used to update firmware *
