Which NAS do list members prefer?

[wiredsol]

What would be some methods to connect my whole house audio system (RCA input) to a Synology NAS with an android app for control?

 

[andyp]

Our first computer at home was a Tandy 1000. And, to be transparent....the company I used to work for bought it for me since I was a workaholic. 95% of the work I did on it was for work.

Radio Shack...boy, do I miss them. Any time I have an electronic project and needed something, I'd just go to the shack. Now I have to wait a few days for an order of resistors, diodes, etc, to arrive.

 

[DuncanS]

Dunc did you have a slide rule or had technology by then already advanced to the Texas Instruments calculator?

Hey mods, I think we need a separate thread devoted to old school computer technology!

My grandparents bought me a Slide Rule (which I still have) for my 14th birthday, the following year I bought myself a Plustronics calculator (+, -, x & divide with a Memory!) for £9.95, then I got a Sinclair Scientific (which I still have) for £14.95 when I started my A-levels, and when I started Uni in 1976 I got a TI-35 (£24 I think) which got lost, I got a better TI calculator (with way more functions) when doing my PhD which has since disappeared!

 

[LuvMyQuad]

What would be some methods to connect my whole house audio system (RCA input) to a Synology NAS with an android app for control?

I assume this is stereo only?

 

[esimms86]

My grandparents bought me a Slide Rule (which I still have) for my 14th birthday, the following year I bought myself a Plustronics calculator (+, -, x & divide with a Memory!) for £9.95, then I got a Sinclair Scientific (which I still have) for £14.95 when I started my A-levels, and when I started Uni in 1976 I got a TI-35 (£24 I think) which got lost, I got a better TI calculator (with way more functions) when doing my PhD which has since disappeared!

So you finally moved up to a couple of SOTA TI calculators which you managed to lose!

And how exactly did your PhD manage to disappear?

 

[esimms86]

What would be some methods to connect my whole house audio system (RCA input) to a Synology NAS with an android app for control?

This is how I have my living room stereo system setup:

I have a mesh network in my home. My Synology NAS drive sits in the basement and is connected to my router via an eero mesh network device. An Intel NUC is also connected to the same eero device. I then have another eero mesh network device connected to a streamer via Ethernet cable, connected to a DAC via USB cable, connected to an integrated amplifier via RCA cables.

I run everything using Roon which I control from an iPad. Roon should work equally well within the Android universe. Of course, Roon is far from being the only game in town.

 

[DuncanS]

So you finally moved up to a couple of SOTA TI calculators which you managed to lose!

And how exactly did your PhD manage to disappear?

Reminiscent of

 

[barfle]

I remember waiting in line for my turn to load punch cards into my university's mainframe computer. Imagine your grandkids reading this thread.

I didn’t even get to load my own deck, just put it in a nin for the operators to run. Then coming back a few hours later to find your bin full of diagnostics like “Undefined variable EOF.”

 

[DuncanS]

I didn’t even get to load my own deck, just put it in a nin for the operators to run. Then coming back a few hours later to find your bin full of diagnostics like “Undefined variable EOF.”

A judicious shuffle of the punch cards before submitting them (we weren't allowed near anything useful!) for batch processing at Uni usually meant plenty of 'rough' paper for lab work etc. - the joy of reams of syntax error messages in Algol, never got quite as many with FORTRAN.

 

[mandrix]

Still using a SAS/SATA card in the main pc. 2 Pairs of 18TB and 1 pair of 10TB drives in RAID 1, 4 more HDD's and 4 SSD's running on the card. NvMe for boot/OS drive.
I use the MaxView storage manager for the RAID as I have an Adaptec SAS/SATA card. Pretty much same as the LSI utility.

Second pc has 6 HDD's and 2 SSD's.
All told, 98% or > surround music plus program storage. Much duplication of music.

 

[wiredsol]

This is how I have my living room stereo system setup:

I have a mesh network in my home. My Synology NAS drive sits in the basement and is connected to my router via an eero mesh network device. An Intel NUC is also connected to the same eero device. I then have another eero mesh network device connected to a streamer via Ethernet cable, connected to a DAC via USB cable, connected to an integrated amplifier via RCA cables.

I run everything using Roon which I control from an iPad. Roon should work equally well within the Android universe. Of course, Roon is far from being the only game in town.

Thanks for the reply. I presently have a USB DAC connected directly to my Synology NAS. Synology no longer supports this. What is this "Streamer" that you have mentioned? Thanks again.

 

[esimms86]

Thanks for the reply. I presently have a USB DAC connected directly to my Synology NAS. Synology no longer supports this. What is this "Streamer" that you have mentioned? Thanks again.

To be totally honest, I’m using an Eversolo DMP-A6 as a streamer only. It also works as a very capable DAC for high resolution FLAC and DSD(plus, it also does MQA, fwiw). The Eversolo also connects via HDMI to function as a 5.1 streamer connected to an AVR. For stereo streamer purposes the Eversolo is overkill.

A streamer essentially routes the music stored on your NAS to your DAC. It also routes services like Spotify, Tidal, qobuz, etc. to your system for playback. If your music is exclusively stereo FLAC files and you don’t want to spend too big then you might want to take a look at WiiM streamers. iFi also makes a streamer that works with both high resolution FLAC and DSD files. I prefer the sound quality of the Eversolo used as a streamer only to that of the iFi. I have never had a WiiM in my system so I can’t comment on how it stacks up in that regard. Hope this helps.

Edit: Though WiiM streamers have a built in DAC, I wouldn't expect too, too much out of the DAC in the WiiM Pro that sells for $149, but it does play FLAC, ALAC and wav to up to 24/192. It also plays MQA over Tidal. The WiiM Ultra has more features like HDMI ARC and Bluetooth and headphone connectivity, etc., for $329, which is not an exorbitant price for our hobby.

https://www.wiimhome.com/shop

 

[mandrix]

I would like just a simple networked device that is 4K capable to play .iso files/whatever off my network, for a price that doesn't break the bank.
Mostly for Atmos/4K .iso rips. Route through the AVR then from AVR on to the display.

 

[wiredsol]

To be totally honest, I’m using an Eversolo DMP-A6 as a streamer only. It also works as a very capable DAC for high resolution FLAC and DSD(plus, it also does MQA, fwiw). The Eversolo also connects via HDMI to function as a 5.1 streamer connected to an AVR. For stereo streamer purposes the Eversolo is overkill.

A streamer essentially routes the music stored on your NAS to your DAC. It also routes services like Spotify, Tidal, qobuz, etc. to your system for playback. If your music is exclusively stereo FLAC files and you don’t want to spend too big then you might want to take a look at WiiM streamers. iFi also makes a streamer that works with both high resolution FLAC and DSD files. I prefer the sound quality of the Eversolo used as a streamer only to that of the iFi. I have never had a WiiM in my system so I can’t comment on how it stacks up in that regard. Hope this helps.

Edit: Though WiiM streamers have a built in DAC, I wouldn't expect too, too much out of the DAC in the WiiM Pro that sells for $149, but it does play FLAC, ALAC and wav to up to 24/192. It also plays MQA over Tidal. The WiiM Ultra has more features like HDMI ARC and Bluetooth and headphone connectivity, etc., for $329, which is not an exorbitant price for our hobby.

https://www.wiimhome.com/shop

Thank you much!