streaming but not wired connection

Posted by: Antonio1 on 08 May 2015

hello,

 

unfortunately,after  having moved, I'm using at the moment a wifi connection in my new home (have macbook pro and unitiqute ), Planning to get a NAS  to store my music and wire it to the unit, would it somehow improve the situation as for streaming?

Would it at least for the the music stored ?

thanks

Posted on: 08 May 2015 by ChrisSU

If you search the forum you'll find lots of threads on this subject. To summarise, buy an unmanaged switch such as a Netgear GS105 for about £20. Connect your Uniti and NAS to it. Also connect an Airport Express or similar, so you can control it with the app. Sorted.

Posted on: 08 May 2015 by Simon-in-Suffolk

Indeed, and if you are like me and use a seperate UPnP media server such as a RaspberryPi, also plug that into the switch as well.

Simon

Posted on: 08 May 2015 by Antonio1

Ok thank you very much.

Then ,this way, sound quality would be on par with ethernet configuration ? 

 

At the moment using Playback ...

Posted on: 08 May 2015 by mackb3

Simon,

 

Are you still using DBpoweramp and are you using PerfectTUNES as well. I've installed MinimServer on my NAS but need to pull together the UnitiServe ripped random WAV files back into album form then check metadata etc.Wondering if PT is useful.

 

Thx...M

Posted on: 08 May 2015 by ChrisSU
Originally Posted by Antonio1:

Ok thank you very much.

Then ,this way, sound quality would be on par with ethernet configuration ? 

 

At the moment using Playback ...

I'm not quite sure what you're asking here? The setup I'm suggesting is all connected by ethernet, except, of course, for the control app. In my experience, the sound quality is much better over ethernet than wifi.

 

To go a bit further: no doubt you want an internet connection as well for iRadio, Spotify, downloads etc. Connect another ethernet cable from the switch to your router for this if possible.  

Posted on: 08 May 2015 by Simon-in-Suffolk
Originally Posted by mackb3:

Simon,

 

Are you still using DBpoweramp and are you using PerfectTUNES as well. I've installed MinimServer on my NAS but need to pull together the UnitiServe ripped random WAV files back into album form then check metadata etc.Wondering if PT is useful.

 

Thx...M

Hi, yes still using Dbpoweramp for my CD rips. i have it set up so dBpoweramp rips directly on to my NAS.. I do this in the den/ study. I then hit the search/rescan on Minimwatch and by the time I am ready to listen in the living room a couple of minutes later I can play the ripped CD via Minimserver, simples 

i don't use Perfecttunes.

Simon

Posted on: 09 May 2015 by mackb3
Originally Posted by Simon-in-Suffolk:
Originally Posted by mackb3:

Simon,

 

Are you still using DBpoweramp and are you using PerfectTUNES as well. I've installed MinimServer on my NAS but need to pull together the UnitiServe ripped random WAV files back into album form then check metadata etc.Wondering if PT is useful.

 

Thx...M

Hi, yes still using Dbpoweramp for my CD rips. i have it set up so dBpoweramp rips directly on to my NAS.. I do this in the den/ study. I then hit the search/rescan on Minimwatch and by the time I am ready to listen in the living room a couple of minutes later I can play the ripped CD via Minimserver, simples 

i don't use Perfecttunes.

Simon

Thanks Simon. I see the Windows DBpa version will decode HDCD in the rip. Is this relevant regarding sound quality assuming you have ripped some HDCD's to your NAS? Sorry for off topic but is relevant for NAS users using server software and sound quality.

 

M

Posted on: 09 May 2015 by Simon-in-Suffolk

Hi, yes the ripper uses a public domain HDCD decoder that has reverse engineered HDCD algorithm so I understand. It turns the HDCD into a 24 bit samples of which 20 bits are used. It certainly appears worthwhile on some HDCD discs, though others have a marginal or no difference. I think it must depend on the mastering and when and how often the HDCD control signals are used in the master.

Simon

 

Posted on: 10 May 2015 by mackb3
Originally Posted by Simon-in-Suffolk:

Hi, yes the ripper uses a public domain HDCD decoder that has reverse engineered HDCD algorithm so I understand. It turns the HDCD into a 24 bit samples of which 20 bits are used. It certainly appears worthwhile on some HDCD discs, though others have a marginal or no difference. I think it must depend on the mastering and when and how often the HDCD control signals are used in the master.

Simon

 

Many thanks Simon. I've got MinimServer and MinimWatch functioning and installed DBpoweramp but the NDX/Naim App still can't view US ripped files from the share on the NAS as albums that were ripped WAV. All US FLAC files are in album form, WAV files are individual songs only. Any ideas?

Posted on: 10 May 2015 by DavidDever
Originally Posted by Simon-in-Suffolk:

Hi, yes the ripper uses a public domain HDCD decoder that has reverse engineered HDCD algorithm so I understand.

Simon

 

Microsoft owns the HDCD intellectual property; as a consequence, the decoder license is included as part of Windows.

Posted on: 10 May 2015 by Simon-in-Suffolk

I don't think that is the case with Dbpoweramp as it uses the utility HDCD.exe (from Doom9 forum) which is coded seperately.

i think the Windows decoder and licensing applies to when you live playback a file using Windows media player. 

 

Here is a comparison between HDCD.exe and Microsoft WMP on HDCD decode

http://lukeskaff.com/?tag=hdcd

As you can see they are identical, but both the software decoders fail to decode the rare transient filter operation, and that seems only available in hardware.

Simon