Synology as musicserver pdf#
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Synology as musicserver full#
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Synology as musicserver full#

No, should anyone imagine this, there isn’t a room full of people ripping CDs or SACDs ( some people on other audio forums seem to think that there is ). Bluntly I am sure that with a repertoire of ( now) 60 million tracks and adding < 10,000 a month Qobuz hasn’t the time or resources to be involved in such things. That will affect you wherever you access the file as it is the record label or the production studio on instruction from the label that has carried out the sample rate conversion.

Synology as musicserver pdf#

pdf whether that e.g 24/96 was drawn from an original 24/96 master or is a 16/44.1 master that has been upsampled. Just like with SACD you cannot usually tell from the disc or a file or accompanying booklet or. Of course when you are talking about hi-res in any setting there always was and always will be a problem over the ultimate provenance. Well, that was the intention but the record label sent them a file where only track 1 had been changed to 24/96 and all of the rest were still MP3. On the day of release the MP3 version was replaced by a 24/96 one. I came across one new release album where the label had allowed Qobuz an MP3 copy pre-release as a taster. Yes, with such a vast repertoire such things will happen from time to time. These have been corrected and the full hi-res file uploaded. This seems to have been a case of the record label sending Qobuz the same files as Tidal in error.

Qobuz was unaware of them until some users with MQA equipped DACs spotted the green or blue tell tales illuminating. The only substantive issue was the appearance of a very limited number of files encoded with MQA some time ago. Qobuz does not interfere with them in any way beyond loading them to its servers. All tracks are as supplied by the record label. There is no provenance problem with tracks on Qobuz. It was time to settle on a solution however. It might well be that the less costly models from Innuos would have given me almost the same result. I tested an Aurender N20, an Antipodes K50, failed with a Pink Faun Ultra and then listened to the Innuos. The Synology failed in this regard in my ears. It opens up the music like it should with dCS. The Innuos fits into my overall system investment and I really enjoy listening to it.

Synology as musicserver upgrade#

With all upgrade paths, they need to fit our individual listening dispositions and budgets. mentioned above some friends of his use Innuos servers. That rhymes with your observation but does not give us a universal rule. I believe uses a Nucleus and sent other expensive servers he tried back. I prefer to find music by doing online research and reading paid music magazines (Uncut, Mojo, Gramophone).

Synology as musicserver free#

It’s hard enough already to live a distraction free life. Among other reasons I stay away from things that nudge me into endless choice. Yes, the Roon Nucleus is a viable option. Google has some fine, and very cheap, cloud storage options and, call me crazy, I believe they will be here for a while. With respect to cloud storage, I recommend companies highly likely to be around for your lifetime. You can buy a Roon Nucleus or Nucleus+, with 4TB SSD for $2-3k, (or build your own for even less) connect this to any NAS or external music service and the Rossini via Ethernet, keep any DSP inside the Nucleus turned OFF, and thereby have a fine pipeline of unlimited music to cleanly feed your dCS device. I would much rather invest such $ in a better DAC, upsampler, or clock. To me it makes no sense to serve a lossy file to $20k+ of highly resolving electronics.Īs such, I also disagree with the need for expensive devices like the Innuos Statement, which, to my simple mind, is just a very expensive single purpose computer, to send files to dCS. That’s ostensibly, is why we are here, for dCS’s DSP.įor this same reason, I do not have any lossy music formats in my digital signal chain, like MQA. In my world view the goal of any music server or storage mechanism is to feed a file to my dCS box as quickly and cleanly as possible.

My two cents here, recognizing that Pete and others have far more expensive gear: