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Streamers from miniDSP with built in room correction!

Hey everyone,
So one of my dirty habits is looking around used equipment sites trying to score a great, cheap surround processor. I admit it, I’m cheap, and demanding when it comes to audio gear. Some A’goner once tried to insult me by saying the could not imagine me spending money on gear, and honestly it was a badge of honor for me.


- HAH! -


So anyway, I came across a couple of neat, inexpensive streamers from miniDSP! Among the cheapest I’ve seen, plus they include Dirac room correction!


https://www.minidsp.com/products/streaming-hd-series


While some of them include DAC’s, at least one DOES NOT!! This is so cool. Essentially it is a pure streamer + room correction system, but still outputs to a DAC via S/PDIF / AES or ... USB!

Outstanding!!


I am really tempted to get one, if I don’t just get a new surround processor instead.

Best,

E
erik_squires

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erik_squires OP
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You might want to look in this thread for clues about using Dirac Live with Roon:

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/how-to-enable-dirac-live-with-roon/2753

If you wanted to do this with miniDSP, you could use this all-digital unit before your DAC:

https://www.minidsp.com/products/streaming-hd-series/shd-studio


Before you go nuts with Dirac though, consider that Roon does have pretty full feature DSP capabilities built in.  You can do some elaborate bass correction using parametric EQ's without Dirac if you know what you are doing.
erik_squires OP
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@richardk69


Ethernet.
erik_squires OP
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Two main reasons I want to get off LMS:

1 - Support for streaming services is mediocre. I want a live Tidal experience

2 - I just refreshed my piCore and lost all my stations. They're in the "mysqueezebox" but I'm kind of tired with it feeling like I'm tinkering all the damn time. I want it to just work and i don't wan tto spend $5,000 for $30 worth of parts wiht an ethernet port.
erik_squires OP
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Thanks @mktmkt !
That's exactly the environment I'm moving from.

I've got a Raspberry Pi streaming to my DAC via USB, but the LMS is getting old, and doesn't support much besides Tidal. I could just switch to Volumio too, but I am not a fan of subscription software.
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