Two new Lumin Network Music Players released today

I guess if you implement all of the compensations for the additional RF noise, vibration and heat generated by the drives while accessing the data that would be acceptable. I see Aurender uses large heat sinks for a passive cooling and the heat sink also acts as a RF noise screen. The hard drives are mounted to a special support frame with rubber pads, which mechanically decouples the two. Also the unit copies the playlist "music files" from the HD to the SSD and then turns off the HDs and plays the files from the SSD.

I feel why do all that just to have local storage when you can have your file storage on a remote device and not have the vibration & RF issues in the first place.

I have JRiver set as a memory player which means it streams the files form a remote storage device, processes the music file entirely and place the processed data in a 1GB buffer before it starts playing the track. This way there is no issue with latency, vibration, RF or heat generated from mechanical HDs. I can say the playback is sublime x2. :)

I think if you have used a Windows OS platform for your music server you would had a better outcome.
 
I have room and noise compromises in my "senior years" listening space, yet top of my wish list is Lumin S1 power supply for my Lumin A1. Have pile of audio spending money burning hole in pocket yet Lumin wants none of it! (v:
 
Geoffrey said:
I have room and noise compromises in my "senior years" listening space, yet top of my wish list is Lumin S1 power supply for my Lumin A1. Have pile of audio spending money burning hole in pocket yet Lumin wants none of it! (v:
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Geoffrey - the S1 PS on the A1 isn't a big difference. I'm happy to send you my Kenneth Lau PS for the A1 to try. Now THAT PS is a difference, Now that I'm using the S1, I don't need it.


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Audioseduction said:
Why would one want a noisy mechanical hard drive in their player. Will effect the SQ in a negative way.
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It's not been my experience and I suspect things are not that simple. On my Antipodes server, the drive is included, and playing from it is superior to playing via ethernet with any NAS or shared disk that I've been able to try. And the drive is not even shielded or mechanically isolated. I've had HDD and SSD drives, and while the latter is better, internal HDD sounded better than SSD from a NAS or a Mac. Conversely, using the Antipodes server as a NAS for a Linn streamer (a very expensive option) was not as good as the server by itself (using the same DAC for both from the digital output of the Linn) but was the best result I could get with the Linn.

Yes Mike, I still haven't been able to listen to a Lumin here -- except during the Munich show, and it wasn't very good, but this is not a proper way to listen to music or quality gear.

I'm also wondering if there's not something intrinsically problematic with using an Ethernet network for real time music. Again with my Antipodes servers, streaming (even from QoBuz) never comes near playback from the internal drive.
 
Great review! Coincides with my own findings. The Lumin S1 is a outstanding world class digital source.
 
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