Sonos vs NAS for streaming Flac 16/192 CD Quality
Posted by: T3Z on 29 August 2014
Hi everyone,
this is my first post so perhaps I should introduce myself,
I like everyone else here loves my music but for me this is my first venture into Naim and streaming so everything is new of me.
The setup, I have a Unityquite 2 paired with PM1's and a Sonos connect.
Speaker cables are 1.5m long Rumour.
Interconect between sonos and UQ2 is optical but will be changing this very soon to coaxial.
I have very basic questions.
Iv ripped my rather small CD collection of 147 to Flac lossless and have it stored on an external drive plugged I to my network. I have mapped the folder on the Sonos controller and am able to stream the music along with Spotify.
I'm really enjoying it, it's a great sounding little system to my ears and the simplicity of the streaming setup is a breeze.
I cannot help to wander if I would have better sound quality if I had my music stored on a NAS drive and streamed it using Nstream by completely bypassing the Sonos, In my mind the sound quality should be the same as the research I have done concludes that Sonos supports 16/192 Lossless Flac.
In your experience would bypassing the sonos provide a better sound quality or would there be such a small difference between the two that I'd probably not notice it?
The one advantage of the NAS is that I would feel safer with my music on it vs a USB drive, my music is however backed up to Microsoft Onedrive.
lastle, regarding the output power, would I see a vast improvement in low level sound quality by adding a NAP100 to the mix, I'm only interested in this size footprint so physically bigger amps are not an option for me.
The system is in my bedroom which is about 4m x 5m
Thank you for reading this long post.
Tez
this is my first post so perhaps I should introduce myself,
I like everyone else here loves my music but for me this is my first venture into Naim and streaming so everything is new of me.
The setup, I have a Unityquite 2 paired with PM1's and a Sonos connect.
Speaker cables are 1.5m long Rumour.
Interconect between sonos and UQ2 is optical but will be changing this very soon to coaxial.
I have very basic questions.
Iv ripped my rather small CD collection of 147 to Flac lossless and have it stored on an external drive plugged I to my network. I have mapped the folder on the Sonos controller and am able to stream the music along with Spotify.
I'm really enjoying it, it's a great sounding little system to my ears and the simplicity of the streaming setup is a breeze.
I cannot help to wander if I would have better sound quality if I had my music stored on a NAS drive and streamed it using Nstream by completely bypassing the Sonos, In my mind the sound quality should be the same as the research I have done concludes that Sonos supports 16/192 Lossless Flac.
In your experience would bypassing the sonos provide a better sound quality or would there be such a small difference between the two that I'd probably not notice it?
The one advantage of the NAS is that I would feel safer with my music on it vs a USB drive, my music is however backed up to Microsoft Onedrive.
lastle, regarding the output power, would I see a vast improvement in low level sound quality by adding a NAP100 to the mix, I'm only interested in this size footprint so physically bigger amps are not an option for me.
The system is in my bedroom which is about 4m x 5m
Thank you for reading this long post.
Tez