Lumin to Innous comparison help.

[One and a half]

@Vangelis, am a bit confused.
In consideration, the Innuous is a music server, since it can deliver music from within itself to a renderer, or directly to a USB DAC for example.

The Lumin is a renderer and relies on a music server to provide storage and either RAAT, UPNP (and a few others) protocol to receive music data.

 

So, the Innuos 'pushes', the Lumin 'pulls'. 

 

If you read online opinions too much, you go potty. I own a U1 (unauditioned) and am very happy with  what I hear, and that USB chain is gone.

 

I was considering to use the Innuous WITH the Lumin U1, but two things put a stop to that. The internal drives of the Inuuous are too small (about 60%) and the largest at 8TB comes at a markup ++, the other is isolation schemes of the Ethernet and USB outputs, would they be up to the likes of EtherRegen, or the JCAT USB or Ethernet PCIe cards. 

 

Also undecided about the coupling of radiated noise in a 'small' case, a large computer case has distance from 'noisy' components, in a laptop, MacMini they aren't so great.