Ratbastrd... love the handle. The NAS is slower than a NUC in loading and accessing files. Some say the NUC running Linux is designed specifically to stream music only and doesn’t run extraneous applications in the background like a windows based NAS. USATube Audio who is the distributor for Ayon in the USA offers their Roon Rock Server and they claim their server is a sound improvement. I’m trying to see if anybody on the forum took that route and what was the result. Based on the generation of my S-5 with an older Ethernet input, I am confined to taking the USB output from their Roon Rock, using the DDC to covert USB to I2S so it can be used by my Ayon S-5.
Has Anybody Had Success Going from Ethernet Streaming to USB Streaming?
In my system I use the Ayon Audio S-5 Network Player/DAC/Preamp which is feed by a router/EtherREGEN/QNAP NAS drive all connect by three Wireworld Platinum Starlight 8 Twinax Ethernet cables and I’m wondering if anybody replaced their NAS with a NUC server with USB output into a LKS, Gustard, or Matrix DDC (USB to I2S converter)? My Ayon Audio S-5 has a I2S input. Does anybody have any input as to wether the NUC running Linex with a USB output would exceed the performance of my current set-up?
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