If you can plug a hard drive in, you can do most of this yourself. I've been using a $175 fanless Win 10 machine to stream Tidal with local storage managed by Jriver. It's also my HQPlayer NAA device for highest he-man quality. It's also fun to stream YouTube vids direct to the main system. Add a USB decrapifier and you have a large percentage of the performance of a dedicated server for a tenth (fifth?) of the cost. If you only want spdif out I can recommend a Rapsberry Pi with an Allo Digione board. Load free PiCorePlayer on it and you have a very high quality device. But it'll run you all less than $200. Take the extra 2K and spend it elsewhere to get the most bang for the buck.-Mike
I am moving away from a laptop as a music server and am interested in a streamer/bridge to replace it. I just bought a 4tb NAS and I have a Burson Conductor DAC. My budget is $2500, not that I need to spend all of it . I have seen so many units but the buyer must beware because if potential compatibility issues and features. I would prefer something with it's own App. Thanks in advance for recommendations.
Quote from: jimbones on November 28, 2017, 06:55:45 PMI am moving away from a laptop as a music server and am interested in a streamer/bridge to replace it. I just bought a 4tb NAS and I have a Burson Conductor DAC. My budget is $2500, not that I need to spend all of it . I have seen so many units but the buyer must beware because if potential compatibility issues and features. I would prefer something with it's own App. Thanks in advance for recommendations.Jim,What is your current setup? Do you have LMS setup already? If not, does you NAS have the ability to run either LMS or Minimserver? If yes, I can loan you my RPi3 setup with PiCorePlayer for you to try. The only question would be is the Burson DAC supported under Linux via USB. It seems to be USB Class 2 compliant interface so should work well. The other option is i can send you the RPi3 + Kali + Piano setup. The Piano uses PCM5122 DAC chip and the sound might be different compared to the Sabre that in you setup right now.
Acronym Hell! lol! LMS??? Burson s class 2 USB. (Anemero board). I have 2 Burson Dac boards ESS and BB. I prefer the BB. So I have a Dell laptop using JRMC USB into my Burson. I don't like JRMC but it is what it is. I have an external 2TB HDD (USB 3) into the Dell. Not sure what Kali, Minimserver, and Piano are. Have to learn this stuff.
correct, I can not do dsd. My NAS is a 4tb WD. That is in addition to my external HDD. I will move music to my NAS.