Advice for a streaming newbie

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18 hours ago, Richard_uk said:

I'm now looking for a streamer and would appreciate some advice.
 

   what components do I need?  I'm assuming that I need streaming software (Volumio for example), a NAS drive (I've seen 2 bay Synology devices on Amazon), the streaming hardware (Allo digione signature?) with Raspberry Pi module, and a DAC (Allo Boss possibly?).

 

For one streaming setup I have a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with Ropiee feeding my DAC, controlled by my phone with JRemote. JRiver is my swiss army knife: Does playback on my main system, does multi-zone playback, does room EQ via convolution filter, it's my DNLA server for my Pi.

 

Instead of a NAS I picked up a Dell Poweredge R620 and added RAID 5 storage.

 

The Pi is $75 with case, Micro SD card, power supply. JRiver and JRemote total $70. You could pick up a refurb'd Dell workstation for less than $100 and add a couple of whatever size drives you want.