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RE: Mac mini or Synology (or something else)?? - baddog - 22-Dec-2016 @BoyScout - How large is your music collection? What music player software are you using? Can you use ethernet to connect both your Devialet and a PC/Mac? RE: Mac mini or Synology (or something else)?? - BoyScout - 22-Dec-2016 (22-Dec-2016, 01:29)baddog Wrote: @BoyScout -Hi, I´ve a bit more than a thousand cd´s. But i want to listen different and new music, they bother me a bit, for now. I don´t have a music player, yet. I´m thinking on a JRiver or Roon, to run on my mac. Yes, i´ve already my Devi connected to my mac by a ethernet cable (with time, i´ll improve these connections with better cables). Thanks, baddog. RE: Mac mini or Synology (or something else)?? - frejo - 22-Dec-2016 (21-Dec-2016, 19:29)BoyScout Wrote: Hi frejo, I bought an Asus minivivo un-45. It has no fan which I think is good. I paid appr. € 100 plus an M2-disk, some ram and a wifi-card. Total cost around € 300. I already owned a couple of windows 10 pro licences so I used one of those. I'm running the asus headless using jriver remote. It works fine. I'm running AIR Ethernet to the Devialet, a tittle tricky but I got good help from a posting somewhere on the forum. I tried running wifi but got lots of drop outs and lots of noise on 24/192 (still not perfect with Ethernet but much better). I tried an Audioquest Vodka Ethernet Cable and I found that it improved the sound quite a lot. With an ordinary cable the sound is more dull, I think. I'm quite happy at the moment but I'm thinking of trying something like the Audiophile Optimizer later on. Hope this helps Merry X-mas RE: Mac mini or Synology (or something else)?? - BoyScout - 22-Dec-2016 (22-Dec-2016, 14:32)frejo Wrote: I bought an Asus minivivo un-45. It has no fan which I think is good. I paid appr. € 100 plus an M2-disk, some ram and a wifi-card. Total cost around € 300. I already owned a couple of windows 10 pro licences so I used one of those. I'm running the asus headless using jriver remote. It works fine. I'm running AIR Ethernet to the Devialet, a tittle tricky but I got good help from a posting somewhere on the forum. I tried running wifi but got lots of drop outs and lots of noise on 24/192 (still not perfect with Ethernet but much better). I tried an Audioquest Vodka Ethernet Cable and I found that it improved the sound quite a lot. With an ordinary cable the sound is more dull, I think. Thanks frejo, helps a lot. That´s the way i pretend to take. I´m realizing that this is NOT a straight and obvious process, there´s a lot more details to care than a tradicional almost full analogic system. For now i´ll try JRiver with the mac and an old hard drive already around here. Then i ´ll need to find some good hi-definition files of music to try. Thanks again and Merry Christmas to you all at home. Cheers, |