SIMAUDIO Neo 180MIND

[jahjahlove]

Does anyone knows this brand, or has heard this streamer ?
On the paper it does (almost) everything I want:
- no hard drive
- not DAC
- XLR output
- Good software
- apparently well built by a known brand
- stream spotify (and Tidal)
- has a 5 year warranty (extendable to 10 uppon registration of the product)
- it doesn't cost an arm: 950 €

The only thing missing for me is a USB input to stick flash memory but this can be done via a NAS (adding more connections)

Thanks for any feed back.

David

 

[jahjahlove]

Replying to my self:

I heard it yesterday, with moon amp and DAC on martin Logan, and well It does the job.
Actually it doesn't stream spotify and it doesn't work with android:S

The whole system after the streamer was very different from mine, so hard to tell precisely yet (until it will be at home in one week), but it surely does work and the app MIND is shared with the expensive range of the brand, developped by a a specialised german company, not moon them selves.

So I bought it. They ran out so It s coming from the importer next week.
I am considering the PSU upgrade.... Teddy Pardo ? Keneth Lau ? Others ?

 

[jahjahlove]

well, to continue:
I am using the MIND 180 for few days now and can say it s a keeper.
No pb with installation, it sounds better than the internal streamer of the yamaha 3050 when plugged into the yam in coax....
the moon application works fine and centralizes radios, NAS, TIDAL; it can even act as a remote controle if you have Moon preamp and amp;
MOON says no need for PSU they took care of this...

so If you have a good DAC and a NAS and intend to keep them, then this little guy can be a solution. It will work with android by january 2016...