Thread: Lumin supports Plex

yeah! congrats! i’ll likely buy a new Lumin. no, I will buy probaly two pieces. they do piss me off but i can say the following because ima fanboi? <thats a question mark

i called 4 dealers including our own: Can I order and how much $ is the L2?
not nobody knew nuthin. L whut?

Lumin T3 no fibre. No thanks i guess i gotta hookup T3 L2 with an old wire? ok.

the L2 rollout is ridiculous. my 2 cents. Lumin is disjointed or, explain T3 missing optical. no, P1 is $10k. gimmie L2 T3 optical combo hah!
maybe I don’t need optical but i think i do. i really do.

ps D2 no plex. /rant over
pps. Lumin app /so tired of red letters in the search box. dum. r/ant continues.

when if I get a deal I’m in on Lumin refresh. yes sir two thumbs up ( one and 7/8 tbh)

ps, wklie, keep on rockin’

Originally Posted by XRS

i called 4 dealers including our own: Can I order and how much $ is the L2?
not nobody knew nuthin. L whut?

The Lumin L2 was previewed at AXPONA and Munich, but availability and pricing have yet to be set. Dealers can't share details that haven't been determined... stay tuned. "Good things are worth waiting for!"

yawn. but thanks. Makes me want to go far away from the brand. Silly marketing. Jackass marketing. Ship the dang thing or shut up. I am learning to hate this brand and like I already said I (was) a fan boi. Fine they can do what they want. What's my next buy? Lumin is bumped - for the moment. Crappy marketing. Fire the sob.

Why should I be so pissed. Because my ears are burned-in by Lumin and once I buy into a brand I hate to move away. The most loyal customer is getting pissed on. they are no longer an elite label...in my mind, period. Now I'm kinda lost and it pisses me off. yells at clouds!

Let me remind that Lumin stated here that they do not talk about future products. That is(was) integrity I can honor. Blowing smoke up my skirt with a new shiny box that I can't have, nor know nothing about but ooogle at. Not my kinda people.

Sorry to unload. But if a tree falls in the forest will anyone hear it.

I bought a Grimm DAC. Not the T3 with missing optical. Not the L2 mystery. I guess I'll try the Grimm but it could have been an Lumin L2+T3. But no one will sell me that setup up. They talk about it. They show shiny boxes at trade shows. Oh boy! I'll feed the Grimm from my D2. Wacky. Or I'll feed the other several DAC's I have from the D2. Good enough. Or maybe I'll just buy the dang Grimm MU1 and burn my ears with that. or something.

Originally Posted by wklie

Plex feature is released to all models, including Lumin A1 2012.

Yes, I can confirm, it works with my Lumin D2.

One slight disappointment is that the image in Plex on my Apple TV doesn’t follow the album or track played through the Lumin DAC and/or Streamer. Or am I doing something wrong?

How do I play from web version of Plex to the Lumin U2?

Hi there @wklie I know this is an old thread, but my question is related to Plex so it seems this may be the best way to post it.

I have set up Plex to work with my Lumin D1. I have Plexamp app and Plex Pass. When I am sending my music to the Lumin it always says that the quality is 128 kbps, but all of my MP3s are either 320 or V0 quality, so none of them are nearly as low as 128. I believe I have all the settings correct for bit-perfect. Any ideas what is going on here? Screenshots below.

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Hi Peter, thanks for your reply. I looked at what you suggested, though I couldn't find options in the settings that matched up perfectly with what you described. Most transcoding options appear to pertain to video only. In any case, I think I discovered what is going on, which may be unrelated to any transcoding settings being incorrect.

I am trying to use Plex to share my extensive MP3 library, and I have a separate FLAC library that I already have set up on a NAS with Minimserver. Most of the MP3 files are variable bit rate. It seems like these variable rate files all display in the Lumin app as 128 kbps. If I choose any of the "normal" constant bit rates (320, 256), the Lumin App will show those accurately. So now I'm wondering, is this an error with how the Lumin app displays the bitrate, or is it actually being transcoded down to 128 kbps?

Any idea on what's actually going on behind the scenes or how to fix it?

Thanks.