Which NAS do list members prefer?
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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!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!
I assume this is stereo only?
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?
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.
Reminiscent ofSo 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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
Mostly for Atmos/4K .iso rips. Route through the AVR then from AVR on to the display.
Thank you much!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
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
Have you looked at Dune players? They'll do exactly what you're asking. I have one, and it works great for ISO playback. Includes the Dolby VS10 engine too.
Not so far. I did scrounge up an old copy of PowerDVD 20, before Cyberlink stopped UHD capability, and it's working out pretty good after lots of futzing with Windows and AVR's.
Thanks for the suggestion!
As for me, my first computer experience was in the fall of '77. Our social studies teacher bought an OG Apple II and started an after-school computer club. Maybe 8 kids total, but just me and one other kid who very quickly became obsessed.
The teacher wasn't at our school the next year, so nothing more until I took a weird summer school thing. They had an old Altair 8800 with a teletype paper terminal. It used paper tape, but we weren't allowed to touch the light reader, so we had to use the VERY slow reader on the teletype. Lesson 1: be very, very sure you have enough tape on the roll for whatever you're saving.
Then did some punch-card programming for big IBM iron. That was...well I can't call it fun, as such. Then my high school got a Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1 level 2. With an expansion interface, and a floppy drive. No more cassette or paper tape. That was ballin'. DEC PDP 11/44. HP minicomputer doing Fortran programming. Plenty of programming on my TI-57. Probably a bunch others I've forgotten because old.
Got a Franklin ACE 1000 Apple clone at home, and then I was an Apple kid until like '86, when I built my first PC clone. Almost all PC from there on, though I do have a Macbook I really like.
The teacher wasn't at our school the next year, so nothing more until I took a weird summer school thing. They had an old Altair 8800 with a teletype paper terminal. It used paper tape, but we weren't allowed to touch the light reader, so we had to use the VERY slow reader on the teletype. Lesson 1: be very, very sure you have enough tape on the roll for whatever you're saving.
Then did some punch-card programming for big IBM iron. That was...well I can't call it fun, as such. Then my high school got a Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1 level 2. With an expansion interface, and a floppy drive. No more cassette or paper tape. That was ballin'. DEC PDP 11/44. HP minicomputer doing Fortran programming. Plenty of programming on my TI-57. Probably a bunch others I've forgotten because old.
Got a Franklin ACE 1000 Apple clone at home, and then I was an Apple kid until like '86, when I built my first PC clone. Almost all PC from there on, though I do have a Macbook I really like.
Stay away from the Homatics box; it's just an Android player with a Dune app. The proper Dune players use their own custom Linux os.
Honestly, I'm kinda tempted to order the Pro Vision 4K for myself. It has some features my current Dune does not. Just...for the Dune non-Homatics players, do not expect to use them for Netflix or other streaming services. They kind of/sort of support them...poorly.
So far the earlier PowerDVD seems to be working out good for UHD. The newer versions do not support UHD, though. Helps to hang on to old software. lol.
Just to rip UHD discs I had to change the firmware on two optical drives, one internal, and a slim drive for a backup. Just not supported anymore for a pc drive.
...and that's how I play almost everything, from the pc, I don't have any 4K capable disc players, mostly use them for SACD ripping or network playing of non UHD.
Just to rip UHD discs I had to change the firmware on two optical drives, one internal, and a slim drive for a backup. Just not supported anymore for a pc drive.
...and that's how I play almost everything, from the pc, I don't have any 4K capable disc players, mostly use them for SACD ripping or network playing of non UHD.
I was late getting into pc's compared to many here I suppose. But once I did I was hooked.
On my job then I had an old IBM running some test equipment on line basic. I started with that and just kept going through DOS and Windows.
All the pc's were those dual boot floppy drive machines at first a work, then stuff started getting better and faster and real HDD's. lol.
On my job then I had an old IBM running some test equipment on line basic. I started with that and just kept going through DOS and Windows.
All the pc's were those dual boot floppy drive machines at first a work, then stuff started getting better and faster and real HDD's. lol.
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