![]() ![]() Once opened there appeared a solid looking metal shoe box size'ish DAC. To my surprise after getting through the outer packaging appeared this new box with the 'G' logo on it. It was covered in yellow tape and thoughts immediately started going around in my head thinking I've been scammed. It scored very highly against DACs to the likes of £3-£5k so I thought right time to see what all this hype is about.ĭid further research into this Gustard DAC and placed the order via eBay as it offers the money back guarantee should things go pair shaped and plus as I've never purchased from a seller in china before.Ĭirca 10 days later the DAC arrived. ![]() Anyways I kept trolling through the forum and again this Gustard name pops up with a link to another forum where the DAC was measured and reviewed. I shook my head and thought, it's got to be British for me or at least have some British roots. Then whilst searching through the blusound forums a DAC by the name of Gustard X16 started appearing? Never heard of them was my first reaction and then looking at their website (thankfully translated by google) it appears to be a company based in China! In terms of sound, again nothing really wow'd me like the naim NDX2 did and at which point I pretty much gave up. There was always something missing from my list. So through my journey I've purchased and sold various equipment and the list includes Īfter going through these plus various other DAC's etc I could never find anything thatĦ) and most importantly, Stable Software! ![]() I wanted to find something that would be on par if not better than my younger sibling, but. I wasn't so impressed with the price however and hence the start of my journey. So firstly, I have been using the node 2i since it's launch and have been pretty happy with it until my brother purchased his Naim NDX2 Streamer……. I don't really write much in these forums, however in my recent journey into finding the right DAC for me I found myself in a pretty interesting place. When you add music you have to rescan so it see the new music. The documentation says you can create playlists using the App, though I've never done it. (iTunes does - so you can add music to your iTunes library, and the Node will play from it.) They support quite large music libraries. You can choose from menus of albums, composers, artists, etc, as you would in iTunes, assuming the the software that created the music files put the right metadata in. The Node scans all music files on the portion of the NAS you point it to, building up an index. The functionality should be the same, though the way you set it up is different. I'm not sure whether uPnP software comes with Macs and Windows. UPnP wouldn't normally be supported directly by a NAS, though maybe some do now. (The only one I've heard of that doesn't is WD's m圜loud Home.) SMB is supported by Mac, PC, and (with some coniguration) Linux, and any reasonable NAS. It would connect to Minimserver running on the RasPi, browse the library and manage playlists, and send to the Chromecast Audio renderer.Click to expand.There shouldn't be any limitations caused by using SMB rather than uPnP. I'm just looking for a control point on Ubuntu. That leaves the Ubuntu desktop free for me to play 0AD / Transport Tycoon or edit music files or upgrade to 20.04 LTS, break the server and reboot it and mess around with it, all while having zero impact on the family room music-delivery infrastructure. To me it's good for the music server to be single-use. I don't want Ubuntu to be the music server. Is there a good control point I can run on Ubuntu, to fulfill the same function as my tablet in this use-case? Just work as a control point? Now I sit there sometimes, playing games or surfing the web or whatever. Just added to the family room this past year is an Intel NUC with Ubuntu Budgie 19.10 and a nice monitor. With a control point on my tablet or phone – BubbleUPnP works well – I can cast my music collection to the family room stereo and enjoy great sound. In the family room I have a Google Chromecast Audio hooked up to my old audio receiver (optical line-in) which has the good speakers & sub. At home I've got a Raspberry Pi running Minimserver, with a 4 TB hard drive connected, as a music server. ![]()
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