Popular Post digidigi Posted October 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2021 My Lumin U1-Mini is presently on Ebay after 4 months of use. Why? Lumin app on android. It crashes occasionally when dealing with UPnP server, but the most frustrating thing was its inability to discover its own device consistently and reliably. My LAN is quite simple and other apps never ever has this discovery issue. Finally, I did find that I missed having a local display as well as some minimal local controls. As for sound quality, I am now back to my Rpi4/Allo DigiOneSignature setup and enjoying it as I have from the beginning. U1-Mini at 3 times the cost did not sound any better to me. One consideration is Spotify HiFi whenever it arrives and whether it can be supported in the open source world. My thinking is that Spotify Connect vendors (such as Lumin and Bluesound) will certainly support it first. That would be my hesitation with Sonore. For myself, I am considering CXN v2 as my "backup" transport since I have an external Benchmark DAC. szczemirek and tomwoo 2 Link to comment
Popular Post digidigi Posted October 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, tomwoo said: I'm surprised to see that. A lot of people said U1 mini was a huge improvement to Rpi4 based streamers... SQ clearly depends on lot of variables; in my view, most important are source material and DAC which feeds amplification and monitors. In my setup, Benchmark DAC balanced output goes into an active x-over in tri-amped configuration. U1 mini sounded as good as Rpi4/Allo but certainly not a "huge improvement." Like you, I value SQ and I'd have gladly put up with Lumin app issues had it delivered clearly superior SQ over Allo. One thing I would note is that Lumin was louder than Allo. Loudness does not equate to better SQ. Generally I find Allo to have more presence, more depth what some might call soundstage. tomwoo and szczemirek 1 1 Link to comment
digidigi Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 8 minutes ago, Spenagio said: I am looking to upgrade from my Allo Digione Signature, so the Opticalrendu and others are on my list. You and I both... at the moment, as soon as my Lumin sells, I'm itching to try out Zen Streamer. It seems the manufacturer has had issues with initial batch; Crutchfield shows that it might be in stock by end of November. Spenagio 1 Link to comment
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