Moving up from a Node 2i
Well it just arrived late yesterday. I found out that Lumin strongly recommends running minim server on the NAS, so I downloaded that and found my library while waiting on the delivery. Setup was painless, even easier than the Node. I have it running in on repeat for a few days, but out of the box the sound was very good. I don't want to say too much too soon, but it sounds more dimensional than the Node, or another way to say it is perhaps "less flat". Still undecided on the Lumin control app. It's not bad, but not sure if it's as good as Bluos. After fiddling with it a little last night I was starting to get used to it, so time will tell. Oz |
I was going to stay with my Node 2i but the Lumin stayed an itch to scratch. I went with the D2 as I wanted the intergrated dac, I think the Lunmin Is more neutral and musical especially at higher volumes. Application wise it seems very old school and in need of a redesign, I’ve decided not to use it and use Roon as the front end. |
One of the things I like about the Lumin app over BluOS is adding multiple songs that are not in order on an album or playlist to the Play Queue in one go. In the Lumin app’s settings, I have “Tap on Song List” = “Double Tap” and “Play Now”. This allows a multi-selection playlist-building process that makes it really easy to quickly build a play queue. With this setup, I can bring up an album or playlist in Qobuz, single tap on all the songs I want (tap again to unselect something) and the “Add to Playlist” bottom menu appears with icons for Play Now, Play Next, Play Later, and Play and Replace. The support page for the app was usefull at figuring out what some of the icons meant in the UI: http://www.luminmusic.com/support-app.html I also like the popup you get when pressing and holding anything (album, song, artist). Tap the thumbnail of the image in that popup and you get the high-resolution artwork full screen. |
Application wise it seems very old school and in need of a redesign, I’ve decided not to use it and use Roon as the front end. It is a bit of a non-standard interface, and no arguing that Roon is far superior, but for non-Roon users, despite its quirks, the app does a number of things better than BluOS. Here are some: —Lumin app updates TIDAL and Qobuz favorites on any refresh. BluOS takes forever to show things I’ve added via the native apps in my favorites, whether it’s artists, albums, playlist updates, etc. So I can curate and discover on the native apps while playing anything newly added on the Lumin right away via the Lumin app. —Lumin app will show bit depth and sample rate of the track playing. BluOS refuses to add this data (read their forums) and instead insist that the user wants to have that info simplified to just some icons that show HR or CD or the squiggly MQA logo; in fairness, some like the icons better than numbers, but I wish they made it an option to show us the actual bit-depth/SR that is being streamed. Cheers, Mike |
