Mac mini or Synology (or something else)??

[frejo]

Hi frejo,

I´m trying to do exactly as you: keep it simple but sounding the best possible.
You´ve almost a month of advantage from me. Can you share your experience with me?
What kind of connection have you exactly? Are you happy now? Costs a lot or not?
Thank you so much and sorry for the inconvenience.

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